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(jration, recommended the construction of a great thoroughfare from 

 Washington City to the battlefield of Gettysburg and, ivherea^ still 

 there seems to be room and opportunity to commemorate the name 

 of Lincoln in a line of science in which he was a prominent actor, and: 



Whereas it was by his signing and approving of the act of Con- 

 gress in 1861 establishing the State schools known as Colleges of 

 Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, to the maintenance of which this 

 nation is committed, and which have since been called "National 

 Schools of Science", of the United States, that the science of agri- 

 uclture and mechanics have teen benefitted and firmly established 

 in the educational curricula of the country, therefore. 



Resolved, that it is the opinion of the members of the Minnesota 

 Academy of Science that the name of Lincoln ought to be applied by 

 Congress to these schools, and that all the literature and all the 

 researches from such schools that may hereafter be published ought 

 to be labelled and every where known as products of the "Lincoln 

 Schools of Science. 



It is the opinion of this Academy that by so designating these 

 schools, while an immaterial and uncostly honor would be conferred 

 on the greatest American citizen, such honor would be likely to be 

 more influential and more durable in the perpetuation of his memory 

 than the expenditure of large sums of money in material monuments 

 of any kind." 



Minneapolis, Feb. 8, 1909. 



The President nominated Winchell, Oestlund and Butler as a 

 committee on nominations, which reported the renomination of the 

 present officers. The Secretary was instructed by motion to cast the 

 ballot for the following officers: — 



President: T. B. Walker. 



Vice President: F. W. Sardeson. 



Cor. Sec'y.: O. W. Ostlund. 



Rec. Sec'y.: H. Gale. 



Treasurer: Edw. C. Gale. 



Trustees for three years: C. W. Hall, H. Gale. 



Curator Franzen reported that something would have to be done 

 to preserve the group of orangs of the Philippine collection from 

 destruction. Referred to the trustees. Moved and carried that the 

 Secretary prepare a copy of the "Proceedings" for publication in a 

 new bulletin and that the Academy publish such a bulletin as soon 

 as possible. Adjourned at 9:40. 



H. GALE, Secretary. 



ZOGth Meeting, Tuesday, March 2d, 1909, in the Museum Room. 



About 12 persons present. In the absence of the President and 

 Vice-President and no quorum of members being present, no formal 

 meeting was held. But the announced subject of the evening, "The 

 Psychology of Music", was given by the Secretary, Harlow Gale, 



