EECORD. 



From January 1, 1904, to December 31, 1904. 



Meeting of January 4, 1904. 



The Academy of Science of St. Louis met in the Academy 

 Building at 8:00 p. m., January 4, 1904; Vice-President 

 Smith in the chair; nineteen persons present. 



An oral report was submitted on the 189th meeting of the 

 Council, showing that under authority the Treasurer had 

 borrowed $1,750.00 for sixty days, at six per cent, on 

 mortgage security owned by the Academy; that President 

 Eliot had given to the Academy the sum of $5,000.00, of 

 which nearly the entire amount had been expended in the 

 renovation and improvement of the building, under his 

 supervision, by authority of the Council; that $150.00 had 

 been secured from the Angle School of Orthodontia, in 

 return for the use of the Academy's rooms for a period of 

 one month ; that bills had been approved for payment to the 

 amount of $477.60, of which $119.92 was for publication, 

 $125.00 for a stereopticon, and $228.50 for electric wiring; 

 that the Academy had lost two members through the death 

 of Mr. Albert Thiele and the resignation of Mr. D. C. Ball; 

 and that the names of A. V. Graf and Rudolph Schmitz 

 were ordered submitted to ballot at the appropriate meeting 

 of the Academy. 



An oral report was submitted on the 190th meeting of the 

 Council, showing that the Council unanimously recommended 

 to the Academy the election of Mr. H. W. Eliot as a patron; 

 and that bills amounting to $395.12 had been approved for 

 payment. 



The Vice-President presented the following address : * — 



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