Abstract of History^ 



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OFFICERS AND MANAGEMENT, 



The officers, who are chosen from the active members, consist 

 of a President, two Vice-Presidents, Recording and Correspond- 

 ing Secretaries, Treasurer, librarian, three Curators and two 

 Directors. The general business management of the Academy 

 is vested in a Council composed of the officers. 



The office of President has been filled by the following well- 

 known citizens of St. Louis, nearly all of whom have been emi- 

 nent in some line of scientific work: George Engelmann, Benja- 

 min F. Shumard, Adolphus Wislizenus, Hiram A. Prout, John 

 B. Johnson, James B. Eads, William T. Harris, Charles V. Riley, 

 Francis E. Nipher, Henry S. Pritchett, John Green, Melvin L. 

 Gray, Edmund A. Engler, Robert Moore, Henry W. Eliot, 

 Edwin Harrison, Adolf Alt and Calvin M. Woodward. 



MEETINGS. 



The regular meetings of the Academy are held at its building, 

 3817 Olive Street, at 8 o'clock, on the first and third Monday 

 evenings of each month, a recess being taken between the meet- 

 ing on the first Monday in June and the meeting on the third 

 Monday in October. These meetings, to which interested per- 

 sons are always welcome, are devoted in part to the reading of 

 technical papers designed for pubUcation in the Academy's Trans- 

 actions, and in part to the presentation of more popular abstracts 

 of recent investigation or progress. From time to time pubUc 

 lectures, calculated to interest a larger audience, are provided 

 for in some suitable hall. 



The following dates for regular meeting for the year 1908 have 

 been fixed by the Council: — 



