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and classification of them in his study. Thus his study at home has 

 been gradually filled with a large a:id valuable collection of rare and 

 beautiful minerals and fossils. 



On removing to Minneapolis in 1894 Mr. Roe soon discovered our 

 Academy and its modest museum. He v/as elected a member on Feb. 

 9th, 1897, was secretary for the two years of 1898-1900, and a trustee 

 from 1900 continuously until his death. He was the first permanent 

 curator of the museum, being appointed in 1899; and it was to his 

 knowledge, experience, scientific enthusiasm, and business ability in 

 this curatorship that the Academy is chiefly indebted for being guided 

 successfully through a trying period of its existence. 



On the reopening of the museum in its present quarters on the 

 third floor of the v/est wing of the Public Library Building, after 

 being closed from the winter of 1903-04 to the summer of 1906, our 

 then 80-year-old curator worked all summer with the enthusiasm of 

 youth in renovating and rearranging the collections. Undoubtedly his 

 interest in his scientific activity and in the Academy's museum was 

 one of the main factors in prolonging his not naturally robust life to 

 the rare and ripe age of nearly 83 years. 



The memory of the life and works of our colleague will be one 

 of the most precious records in the annals of the Academy." 



Moved, seconded, and carried that this memorial be recorded in 

 the minutes of the Academy. 



The Secretary reported chat the deed of sale of the Henry W. 

 Bustis collection of butterflies and moths was now in the hands of the 

 Academy's Treasurer, and that the transaction was closed to the 

 mutual satisfaction of both parties, about $465.00 having been raised 

 by subscription from the friends of the Academy and of Mr. Bustis for 

 this purpose. 



At 8:30 the paper of the evening, "The Opsomic Theory and the 

 New Hygiene," was read by Professor Dr. F. J. Wulling, Dean of the 

 College of Pharmacy of the University of Minnesota. The very scolarly 

 and interesting paper was discussed by Dr. H. L. Ulrich and others. 

 It has since been published in the Northwestern Druggist. Adjourn- 

 ment at 10:10. 



H. Gale, Secretary. 



ZOOth Meeting, Monday March 2, 1908, in the Directors' Room. 



Minutes and business were dispensed with in favor of the speaker 

 of the evening. Professor D. Lange, of the Humbolt High School, St. 

 Paul, on "Birds and Wild Animals of Northern Minnesota", illustrated 

 by many original photographs, as lantern slides, of birds and deer in 

 their natural habitat. The large audience was intensely interested in 

 this most original and delightful address and exhibition. 



H. Gale, Secretary. 



