yanuary i8, 1869. 



Dr. John Green, Vice-President, in the chair. 



Seven members present. 



Dr. Green reported from the Committee on Removal, that all 

 the conditions of the contract between the Academy and the 

 Board of Public Schools had been agreed upon, and only awaited 

 the proper legal forms to be drawn up and executed. 



Dr. C. W. Stevens made some remarks upon the skull of the 

 fossil ox {Bos bombifrons)^ found, several years ago, at the bot- 

 tom of Chouteau's Pond, in the city of St. Louis, and now be- 

 longing to the Museum of the Academy. 



Dr. Stevens also stated that the boring of the Artesian Well, 

 at the Insane Asylum, near St. Louis, had reached the depth of 

 3,562 feet, and that the boring was, at present, in the white sand- 

 stone, supposed to be below the 4th Magnesian Limestone. 



February i, 1869. 



Vice-President Wislizenus in the chair. 



Eight members present. 



Dr. C. E. Briggs reported from the Committee on Removal, that 

 the contract with the Board of Public Schools could not be signed 

 at present, for the reason that some business touching the posses- 

 sion of the Polytechnic building had yet to be transacted. And 

 at the suggestion of Mr. Hayes, it was directed that a removal 

 should not take place until the contract could be signed in due 

 form of law^. 



Dr. Wislizenus gave a summary of his metereological record, 

 as follows : Mean temperature for January, 37.2° ; average for 

 33 years, 32.4° ; range from 23° to 62°. No snow during the 

 month. Further south there had been 7 inches of snow, and 

 several severe storms. Rainfall during the month, 2.2 inches ; 

 average, 3.16 inches. 



Mr. Spencer Smith stated that he had recently made a trigo- 

 nometrical measurement of the height of the Big Mound of St. 

 Louis, and found it to be 34.59 feet above the sidewalk on 

 Broadway. It was remarked that this sidewalk was some five 

 feet below the natural level of the ground, which would reduce 



