Record. xxix 



President Henry W. Eliot. 



First Vice-President D.S.H. Smith. 



Second Vice-President Wm. K. Bixby. 



Recording Secretary William Trelease. 



Corresponding Secretary Ernest P. Olshausen. 



Treasurer Enuo Sander. 



Librarian G. Hambach. 



Curators G. Hambacli, 



Julius Hurter, 



A. H. Timmerman. 



Directors F. E. Nipher, 



Adolf Alt. 



No nominations other than those by the committee were 

 offered. 



A paper by C. F. Baker, entitled A revision of American 

 Siphonaptera, together with a complete list and bibliog- 

 raphy of the whole group, was presented by title and re- 

 ferred to the Council. 



Dr. C. B. Curtis delivered an illustrated address on color 

 photography, outlining the theory of color vision and the va- 

 rious ways in which a given color sensation maybe produced, 

 and describing various processes by which the natural colors 

 of objects can be reproduced by photographic means. 



Messrs. Robert H. Fernald and Frank A. Ruf , of St. Louis, 

 were elected to active membership. 



Two persons were proposed for active membership. 



Reports of Officers for the Year 1902. Submitted 



January 5, 1903. 



The president, Mr. Henry W. Eliot, addressed the Academy 

 as follows : — 



It is customary at this, the annual meeting of members of the St. Louis 

 Academy of Science, for the retiring oflBcers to give an account of their 

 stewardship. In accordance with this custom, I have to report that, while 

 the Academy has not made as material progress as I had hoped, we still 



