years alone published an entire volume of scientific papers. In the next 
twenty-one years, the organization would produce two-and-a-half more 
volumes, and by 1881 the Academy was exchanging those volumes for 
the publications of 260 science societies in Sweden, Holland, Belgium, 
Spain, Russia, Germany, France, Portugal, Denmark, Switzerland, Italy, 
Great Britain, and the United States. These publications, and the other 
activities of the members of the Academy, helped establish the city’s 
reputation as a center for science in the expanding Midwest. 
