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Managers of the Mercantile Library with a view to securing 

 accommodations for the Academy, reported that considerable 

 progress was being made in the negotiations. 



Mr. Hilder, Secretary of the Archaeological Section, made a 

 verbal report of the proceedings of the section during the past 

 month, giving an interesting account of the explorations now 

 being conducted by the section in New Madrid Co. 



Dr. Geo. Engelmann read a proposition from the Department 

 of Agriculture offering to donate to the Academy a set of speci- 

 mens of American woods, pi"ovided that they be exhibited in 

 proper cases and the collection be accessible to the public. 



On motion, it was resolved that the offer be accepted, and that 

 the collection be placed for the present in the St. Louis Museum 

 of Arts and Sciences. 



H. A. Voelkner, Dr. Ambrose F. Everett, Willis N. Graves, 

 F. E. Roessler, and Gen. J. H. Simpson, were elected Associate 

 Members. 



May 21, 1877. 



C. V. Riley, President, in the chair. 



Seventeen members present. 



Mr. Collet presented in behalf of the Abbe Cyprian Fai'aguay, 

 of the Bureau of Religious Statistics, Canadian Government, four 

 volumes of the Census of the Dominion of Canada, 1870-71. 



Mr. Hilder made a verbal communication on the symbolic 

 meaning of certain decorations found on the pottery of the 

 Mound-builders. 



The President was instructed to invite the American Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science to hold its session of 187S 

 in St. Louis. 



Prof. Nipher exhibited Hipp's electric clocks, showing the 

 method of transmitting uniform time to a system of clocks. 



On motion, Mr. Collet and Judge Holmes were appointed a 

 Committee to confer with other organizations in i-egard to the 

 erection of a building for their common use. 



Samuel M. Green, of Cape Girardeau, and F. M. Dyer, of 

 Charleston, Mo., wei'e elected Corresponding Members. 



