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tion amounted to a considerable sum, a 0 actually, as will appear from 
sum ha: he t bet S-aitneaiek dues of the members 
These dues and voluntary contributions f me rs form at present 
our only financial resources, and as they are limite st necessa- 
rily for the com confine our operations within those bounds 
With larger means reat deal mo ccomplished 
re in the centre of the Mississippi Valley, in the cultivation of the natu- 
ral sciences, in dev the natural resoure f reat West, and 
in stimulating young men to habits of observing the ers and study- 
g the laws of Nature, which must result in the increase of n know- 
ledge and the improvement of manki B ith small means 
we will try to approach at least this high and noble e here- 
fore, not relax i ut w in the cause of science ; 
and from small begi innings our Academy may grow to such importance in 
rien on that not only St. Louis but the entire West will appreciate 
old it 
and u 
A, WISLIZENUS, President. 
The Reports of the oe Secretary and ioe Trea- 
surer for the year 1859 were read, examined, and accepted. 
The following gentlemen were ested officers of ‘the Acad- 
emy for the ensuing year, 
Pres Hiram A. Prout. 
1st vane, Pretend George Engelmann. 
2d Vice President, Charles A. Pope. 
Corresponding Secretary, Nathaniel Holmes. 
Recording Secretary, Montrose A. Pallen. 
J. leyne. 
Atal lleyn 
Libr rian, aum HW 
Hides T. C. Hilgard, Edwin Harrison, 
Com. on Publication, a Ged: Engelma 
. C. A. Pope, Sainekt Reber, G. H. 
Com. on Library, i: Bauihparten 
. Spencer Smith, J.B. Eads, Chas. 
Com. on Finance, C. Whittelsey. 
hsm of the Standing Committees were appointed as 
follows, viz 
_ Ethnology, N. Holmes. 
Comp. Anatomy, C. A. P. 
kim O”gys J. S. B. Alleyne. 
Mammalogy, C. W. Stevens. 
Ornithology, _ Fag he ait s 
Herpet lo aumgar 
Enio pentane and MYON Ne NE, MePhecters. 
Botany, Geo. Engelmann. 
