Record. li 
Malvern B. Clopton, Henry C. Garneau, William L. R. 
Gifford, John H. Gundlach, Henry P. Hilliard, Robert 
McKittrick Jones, Alfred L. Kammerer, Alfred Q. Ken- 
nett, Robert McCulloch, Thomas H. McKittrick, Alfred 
Lee Shapleigh, Wilson P. H. Turner, Daniel 8. Tuttle, 
C. A. Waldo, Perey Werner, Oscar L. Whitelaw, H. E. 
Wiedemann. 
Marcu 1, 1909. 
President Trelease in the chair; attendance 54. 
Mr. Julius Hurter read a paper entitled ‘‘ The Amphib- 
ians and Reptiles of Arkansas,’’ compiled by himself and 
Mr. John K. Strecker, Jr.?? 
Mr. Hurter also showed specimens of the blind sala- 
manders of the world—Proteus anguinus (European 
blind salamander), Typhlotriton spelaeus (Missouri), 
and Typhlomolge rathbuni (Texas). 
The following resolution was adopted: 
The Academy of Science of St. Louis, an organization equally 
interested in the preservation and the proper and consistent utilization 
of the gifts of Nature, respectfully urges on the Congress of the 
United States the desirability of promptly passing the House Joint 
Resolution now under consideration, as a means of continuing the pro- 
visions of the Burton Bill, limiting the diversion of water from Niag- 
ara Falls, until equally effective but more permanent protection of 
the Falls shall be secured by adequate legislative or executive action. 
On proper motion, duly seconded and unanimously carried, at a 
meeting of the Academy held on the first day of March, 1909, the 
foregoing memorial was adopted as expressing the views of the 
Academy; and copies were ordered sent to the Speaker of the House 
of Representatives, the President of the Senate, and the gentlemen 
who represent Missouri in both branches of the present Congress. 
The following were elected to membership: George D. 
Barnard, George Warren Brown, Theophilus Conzelman, 
Harvey L. Christie, Hanford Crawford, Dwight F. Davis, 
Charles H. Duncker, Jacob Furth, C. Stuart Gager, Ben- 
jamin Gratz, C. H. Huttig, David F. Kaime, H. P. Knapp, 
John Lawrence Mauran, Fritz Nisbet, Leo Rassieur, 
Charles A. Stix, W. S. Stuyvesant, M. E. Towner, Julius 
S. Walsh, Rolla Wells, Louis Werner. : 
21 Published in Transactions, Vol. XVIII., No. 2. 
