Record. 



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bullet are to be summed up in an alternating current. The 

 results which seem to have been reached are in entire harmony 

 with the well-known experiment of Michelson and Morley,who 

 found that the ether within the building in which they worked 

 was beins: carried alons^ with the buildinor and with the earth 

 in its orbital motion. 



Reports of Officers for the Year 1901. 



Submitted January 6, 1902. 



The retiring president, Mr. Robert Moore, presented the 

 following address : — 



Members of the Academy of Science of St. Louis: 



In retiring from the oflSce that since the deeply regretted departure of 

 Prof. Engler from the city has for a few months been occupied by me, it 

 gives me pleasure to record that during the past year the work of the 

 Academy has been carried on with success. 



Aiih-xNL>AxNCE BY MEETINGS. 



Sixteen meetings have been held with an average attendance of twenty- 

 eight persons. This is somewhat less than during the year 1900, when for 

 reasons of an exceptional nature the attendance for several meetings was 

 unusually large, but it is cousiderably larger than the average of the five 

 preceding years, 1895-99, and has been more regular than in those years. 



