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three Curators and two Directors. The general business 
management of the Academy is vested in a Council com- 
posed of the officers. 
The office of President has been filled by the following 
well-known citizens of St. Louis, nearly all of whom have 
been eminent in some line of scientific work: George 
Engelmann, Benjamin F’. Shumard, Adolphus Wislizenus, 
Hiram A. Prout, John B. Johnson, James B. Hads, Wil- 
ham T. Harris, Charles V. Riley, Francis E. Nipher, 
Henry 8. Pritchett, John Green, Melvin L. Gray, Hd- 
mund A. Engler, Robert Moore, Henry W. Eliot, Edwin 
Harrison, Adolf Alt and Calvin M. Woodward. 
MEETINGS. 
The regular meetings of the Academy are held at its 
building, 3817 Olive Street, at 8 o’clock, on the first and 
third Monday evenings of each month, a recess being 
taken between the meeting on the first Monday in June 
and the meeting on the third Monday in October. These 
meetings, to which interested persons are always wel- 
come, are devoted in part to the reading of technical 
papers designed for publication in the Academy’s Trans- 
actions, and in part to the presentation of more popular 
abstracts of recent investigation or progress. From time 
to time public lectures, calculated to interest a larger 
audience, are provided for in some suitable hall. 
The following dates for regular meetings for the year 
1911 have been fixed by the Council: 
Jan | Feb | Mar |April | May | June | Oct | Nov | Dec 
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