adopk'd lor the ]uil)lit-;ilic)ii ol the lUilkliii, \>ui no (Icliiiilc action was had 

 other than appointing; Mr. Spalding as an ad(htional member of the com- 

 mittee heretofore appointed to consult with the Board of fiovernors of 

 the Museum and the County Supervisors, as to the best mode of settling 

 the indeterminate and unsatisfactory conditions under which the proper- 

 ties of this Academy are, at present, located in said Museum. 



The meeting adjourned to be re-assembled in the Academy office on 

 Thursday, December 7, 1916, at 4 o'clock for further action, and the Sec- 

 retary was instructed to send an urgent request to all the Directors that 

 their presence at that meeting was required. 



Board adjourned. 



Directors' Meeting 



Pursuant to adjournment from December 5, 1916, all of the Directors 

 having been officially notified, a meeting was held in the office of the 

 Academy, at the hour of 4 o'clock p. m. on Thursday, December 7, 1916, 

 with the following named gentlemen present, to-wit : Messrs. Alliot, 

 Benton, Collins, Keese, Parsons, Spalding and Watts. 



During the temporary absence of the President, the meeting was 

 called to order by Vice-President Watts. 



The record of the meetings of the Directors, held on May 8, and De- 

 cember 5, 1916, was read, as this meeting had been called for the purpose 

 of a definite settlement of the questions discussed at those two meetings. 



The matters of the future status of the Bulletin and the indeterminate 

 conditions under which our scientific collections have been deposited in 

 the Museum of Science, History and Art, located in Exposition Park, were 

 most earnestly discussed during a period of two hours, and the sanction 

 was ratified against the consolidation of our Bulletin with any other 

 publication, or any proposition accorded whereby the identity of this 

 Academy may be endangered or in any manner placed in jeopardy. 



No resolution of any kind was adopted or proposed, and the two 

 questions were left open for consideration and examination with the an- 

 nounced purpose of a final disposition thereof at a future meeting. 



Academy Meeting 



The December meeting of the Academy was held in the evening of 

 the 13th day of the month at the Banquet Hall of Christopher's Res- 

 taurant, No. 739 South Broadway. 



The President and the three Vice-Presidents not being present, Mr. 

 W. A. Spalding presided. 



After investigating the various courses of good things placed upon 

 the tables, a short period of post-prandial addresses ensued. 



By a hearty and unanimous vote the Secretary was instructed to send 

 the greeting of the Academy to Dr. A. Davidson, with the hope that he 

 would speedily recover his old-time vigor. 



Mr. S. J. Keese, from his lantern, exhibited upon the screen views of 

 polarized light, and he was followed by exquisite color-photographs of 

 flowers, plans, mountains, valleys, waterfalls, caiions and lakes in Cali- 

 fornia, Oregon, Wyoming, Arizona, the Yellowstone Park and the Grand 

 Canon, taken by Dr. S. C. Low and Dr. D. L. Darker, taken by the Lamere 

 process in which photographs are obtained of objects in their natural 

 colors. 



The festivities closed at a late hour. 



Dirfxtors' A'Teeting 



A legally called meeting of the Directors was held on Wednesday, 

 January 24, 1917, at 4 o'clock, in the office of the Academy. 



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