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Proceedings up to the last annual meeting were being rapidly- 

 printed, and that No. 2 of vol. iii. would soon be distributed. 

 Mr. Todd made the following report, which was accepted : 

 The undersigned, appointed to get a tenant for the occupation of the 

 parcel of ground donated to it and the Missouri Historical Society, would 

 respectfully report : That he placed the same in the hands of Messrs. S. D. 

 Porter & Co. for letting, and that they have let the same to Messrs. James 

 L. Ohlhausen & Co., for one year, from March 15, 1875, at the rent of $55 

 per annum, payable semi-annually in advance, with the privilege of an- 

 other year at a rent equal to taxes and expenses, provided the Academy 

 should not require its possession for erecting a building, and in this case 

 the .same to be surrendered upon demand at any time after the end of the 

 first year. Porter & Co. are to be paid a commission of five per cent, upon 

 the collection. 



He also presented a subscription book and explained its pur- 

 pose : 



It was designed to receive subscriptions to stock to the amount of $15,- 

 000. Each subscriber was to agree with the Academy of Science to take a 

 certain number of shares, to be issued by the Society, against his or her 

 signature, and to pay for the same $25 a share, from time to time, as might 

 be demanded for the erection of the new building, provided that the sum 

 can be subscribed for before any payment on the same be demanded. The 

 book was ruled for the names of the subscribers, number and amount of 

 shares taken. 



The book was accepted, and Mr. Todd's name heads the list 

 for twenty shares of stock. 



Rear-Admiral C. H. Davis sent a copy of the astronomical 

 and meteorological observations taken during the year 1872. A 

 vote of thanks was returned for the same. 



Captain Robert B. Wade, of St. Louis, sent a sample of lace 

 taken from the so-called "Lace Tree" of the West Indies. The 

 sample was referred to Dr. G. Engelmann, and a vote of thanks 

 was passed to Capt. Wade. 



Mr. Riley called attention to the following published corre- 

 spondence of Mayor Brown on the subject of the Colorado 

 Potato-beetle, in answer to inquiries made by a Belgian, M. 

 A. C. Hardy de Boislieu : 



Some of the European Governments, fully appreciating the fact that it 

 is easier to prevent than to cure an evil, and alive to the importance of 

 economic entomology, have become somewhat alarmed now that this insect 

 is known to have reached the Atlantic sea-board at a number of different 

 points, lest it should be carried to Europe. Cognizant of the well-known 



