Abstract of History. XXi 
PUBLICATIONS AND EXCHANGES. 
Kighteen octavo volumes of Transactions have been 
published since the organization of the Academy, and 
widely distributed. 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 Washing- 
ton University Eclipse Party of 1889. The Academy 
now stands in exchange relations with 586 institutions or 
organizations of aims similar to its own. 
MUSEUM. 
After the loss of its first museum, in 1869, the Acad- 
emy lacked adequate room for the arrangement of a 
public museum, and, although small museum accessions 
were received and cared for, its main effort, of necessity, 
was concentrated on the holding of meetings, the forma- 
tion of a library, the publication of worthy scientific mat- 
ter, and the maintenance of relations with other scientific 
bodies. 
The Museum is at present located on the third floor 
of the Academy Building and has in it a number of 
specimens illustrating the various branches of natural 
science, among which may be mentioned the Yandell Col- 
lection of fossils, a collection of some 600 exotic butter- 
flies, a collection of Mound Builder pottery and skulls 
from near New Madrid, Mo., and a collection of 25 
meteorites. Our material forms but a nucleus of a 
museum which the Academy hopes to establish—a 
museum which we trust will be of benefit to the public 
and to the educational institutions of the city. 
