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The attendance was so small that after informally discussing 

 various subjects an adjournment was moved and carried. 



October i8, 1875. 



W. T. Harris, President, in the chair. 



Eighteen members present. 



The Committee on Building being asked to report, Mr. Todd 

 said that a former meeting a scheme had been reported for the 

 collection of money and the erection of a building for the Acade- 

 my of Science and the Historical Society. It was proposed to 

 raise $20,0x30 by subscriptions for shares, and $20,000 was to be 

 borrowed on the property. The subscription book was in the 

 hands of the Recording Secretarj- — who remarked that it was 

 laid upon the table at each meeting for the signatures of mem- 

 bers, and at the same time suggested that something should be 

 done to appeal more effectually to the citizens outside the Aca- 

 demy. 



Dr. Briggs, from the Committee on Library and Catalogue, 

 reported that it had been found necessary to suspend the work of 

 cataloguing pamphlets, as it was impossible to proceed until the 

 bound volumes could be overhauled. This could not be done 

 until the School Board should supply the cases necessary for the 

 reception of the pamphlets. It was hoped this would be done 

 within a month. A request for information regarding the num- 

 ber of volumes in the library had been received from the Com- 

 missioner at Washington. There were now only eleven copies 

 remaining of the first number of vol. i. of the Transactions. 



On motion, the committee was empowered to take such means 

 as seemed proper to preser\-e the pamphlets. 



The Corresponding Secretarj- called attention to a large num- 

 ber of pamphlets, books and papers on the table. Among them 

 were the Quarterly Journal of Conchology, published in Leeds. 

 England ; the Geological Survey of Missouri, from Mr. Broad- 

 head ; A Volume of Explorations in Colorado, by J. W. Powell ; 

 Bulletin of the Anthropological Society ; Obser\'^ations made at 

 the Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory at Batavia. 



Judge Holmes also called attention to an article in the Cana- 

 dian Naturalist on the Indian Race in America, by Prof. Daniel 



