Works Project Administration provided the labor, the Missouri 
Resources Museum in Jefferson City acted as the project’s official spon- 
sor, and the Smithsonian Institution gave the project approval. 
Adams’ investigations, which included excavations of mounds, 
village sites, and rock shelters in Jefferson Country south of St. Louis, 
yielded a wealth of Amerindian artifacts and information about the past 
lives of native people in the Mississippi River Valley. The cultural 
materials Adams unearthed went to the Academy, the Missouri Resource 
Museum, and the Smithsonian Institution. The knowledge gained on 
the project was disseminated in various publications, the most impor- 
tant being an article by Adams that appeared in the Academy’s Trans- 
actions.” 
The Academy published two volumes of the Transactions between 
1935 and 1941. In addition to Adams’ article, these two volumes con- 
tained ten other papers.25 The Academy continued to exchange its 
publication for those of other academies and it constantly added to its 
list of exchange partners. In 1939, it reopened its library, which had 
for some years been stored and unavailable for public use.?° 
The Academy continued to accept donations of specimens and arti- 
facts.27 Unlike the library, however, its museum collections remained 
in storage. The establishment of a museum remained an important goal 
for the members. They expressed their desire for a new museum time 
and again in articles in the Academy Bulletin and made several pro- 
posals for the erection of a science museum in the city. One of the 
members who so vigorously sustained the push for a museum was Robert 
James Terry, who served as Academy President from 1935 until 1937. 
Robert James Terry was born in St. Louis in 1871. He earned his 
M.D. degree from the Missouri Medical College in 1895 and later 
studied at Edinburgh, Freiburg and Harvard. In 1901 he returned to 
St. Louis to occupy the Chair of Anatomy in the Medical Department 
at Washington University. 
Terry was an active member of many science societies, including 
the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American 
Association of Anatomists, the American Anthropological Association, 
the Anatomical Society of Great Britain, and the American Ornithological 
Union. He also belonged to the St. Louis Medical Society, the Missouri 
Historical Society, the St. Louis Anthropological Society, and the 
Naturalist Club of St. Louis. He authored numerous articles on human 
comparative anatomy, and he wrote a book entitled An Introduction 
to Human Anatomy. 
Terry joined the Academy in 1896 and in subsequent years served 
as a curator and as librarian. He was an enthusiastic supporter of the 
St. Louis ‘‘museum movement,”’ and he worked hard toward establishing 
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