aexve Trans. Acad, Sci. of St. Louis. 
A petition of nine members of the Academy that the 
creation of an Entomological Section be authorized, was 
read and such a section approved. 
Mr. James Newton Baskett presented a paper on 
‘‘Heads and Tails in Nature.”’ 
The death of Mr. Francis D. Hirschberg was reported. 
REPORTS OF OFFICERS. 
PRESIDENT’s REpPorRT. 
The year 1908, the fifty-third year of the Academy’s existence, has 
been relatively uneventful. The legitimate work of the Academy has 
gone on without interruption; valuable papers have been read, and 
our library of exchange proceedings has grown steadily; our building 
and grounds have been kept in order; and no great calamity has fallen 
upon us. For detailed reports I beg to refer to the reports of the 
various officers. 
We have had sixteen regular meetings with the following list of 
papers and discussions: 
Approximate Determination of Latitude—G. O. James.” 
Planet Mars—C..B. Curtis.” 
Eosinophilia and Indicanuria—C. H. Neilson. 
Color Photography—G. Cramer™ 
Glacial Drift under the St. Louis Leess—J. A. Drushell.™ 
Transplantation of Ovaries in Chickens—C. C. Guthrie. 
Radioactivity—L. McMaster. 
Growing Old, and the Attempts to Prevent it—A. C. Eycleshymer.” 
Oil and Gas in St. Louis and Vicinity—H. A. Wheeler. 
Measurement of the Acceleration of a Freely Falling Body—L. 
Pyle.™ 
Electric Furnace in Industrial Chemistry—S. A. Douglass.™ 
Momentum Effects of an Electric Discharge—F. E. Nipher.™ 
Fatigue of Insulation—A. S. Langsdorf.” 
Cranial Surgery among the Primitive Races—H. M. Whelpley.* 
How We Learn to Do Things—E. J. Swift. 
Heads and Tails in Nature—J. N. Baskett.* 
Our attendance record has preserved the even tenor of last year. 
Total attendance 1908....... Hibb-GOM MA RENM COO VAO REL OES 472 
AVGTARS BLLENUBNCO 190G sii 6 e566 oily CRA Ue ves eas 30 
Smallest: Bttendance ss soi co eae ede was bees 10 Dec. 7 
Largest: AILCNGANCE Gibii ied Sarid ta ss beh aesiweetanee ane 110 Jan. 20 
Total ‘attendante L00T oo 6s sik ete bce cee een eee bw eree 482 
Average: attendance :1907.'s isa ie ew ed ne ee oe wen eels ass 30 
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