Abstract of History. xv 



Harris, Charles V. Riley, Francis E. Nipher, Henry S. 

 Pritchett, John Green, Melvin L. Gray, and Edmund A. 

 Engler. 



MEETINGS. 



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

 1600 Locust Street, at 8 o'clock, on the first and third Monday 

 evenings of each month, a recess being taken from the second 

 June meeting to the first October meeting, inclusive. These 

 meetings, to which interested persons are always welcome, are 

 devoted in part to the reading of technical papers designed 

 for publication in the Academy's Transactions, and in part to 

 the presentation of more popular abstracts of recent investi- 

 gation or progress. From time to time, public lectures cal- 

 culated to interest a larger audience are provided for in some 

 suitable hall. 



LIBRARY. 



After its organization, the Academy met in Pope's Medical 

 College, where a creditable beginning had been made toward 

 the formation of a museum and library, until May, 1869, 

 when the building and museum were destroyed by fire, the 

 library being saved. The library now contains some 13,215 

 books and 9,430 pamphlets, and is open during certain hours 

 of the day for consultation by members and persons engaged 

 in scientific work. 



PUBLICATIONS AND EXCHANGES. 



Nine octavo volumes of Transactions have been published 

 since the organization of the Academy, and widely distrib- 

 uted. Two quarto publications have also been issued, one 

 from the Archaeological Section, being a contribution to 

 the archaeology of Missouri, and the other a report of the 

 observations made by the Washington University Eclipse 

 Party of 1889. The Academy now stands in exchange rela- 

 tions with 533 institutions or organizations of aims similar to 

 its own. 



