TRANSACTIONS OF THE ACADEMY 



A regular meeting of the Directors was held on Wednesday, October 9, 1918, 

 in the office of the Academy, at which all were present except Benton, Davidson, 

 Ulrey and Watts. 



The record of proceedings of the previous meetings was approved. 



The Treasurer presented a statement of the finances of the Academy, and 

 in view of the unusually large indebtedness incurred by the publication of the 

 July Bulletin and other necessities of the Academy, he was authorized to borrow 

 the sum of $200.00 and to pledge for the repayment thereof, any of the securi- 

 ties of this Academy, and with the Secretary, to execute the necessary obligation 

 therefor and any other papers that may be necessary in the premises. 



Mr. Everett R. Perry, residing at 720 Kingsley Drive, was elected a member 

 of the Academy. 



The Secretary reported that he had secured for the fourth Tuesday of every 

 month, the large Hall on the tenth floor of the Metropolitan Building, for the 

 meeting of the Astronomical Section, and that Mr. Mars F. Baumgardt, Chair- 

 man thereof, will deliver the first lecture therein on October 22, 1918, for which 

 a printed notice for distribution had been prepared. 



Board adjourned. 



ACADEMY MEETING. 



The regular monthly meeting of the Academy was held on Friday evening, 

 January 3, 1919, in the Friday Morning Club House. 



Mr. B. R. Baumgardt entertained our members and guests in his usual happy 

 and graphic diction, by a description of the two cities, Paris and Versailles and 

 an augury of the results of the forth-coming Peace Conference. 



He verbally pictured the two cities, their majestic Temples of worship, 

 historic Palaces, magnificent Museums, the unsurpassed beauty of their interiors 

 and many of their world-renowned art treasures, views of which were presented 

 upon the screen. 



His remarks relating to the Peace Conference and the terms of restitution and 

 reparation which shall be imposed upon the defeated central, savage oligarchy, 

 were greeted with a mighty applause. 



At the close of the lecture, the lights were turned off and Mr. Mars F. 

 Baumgardt exhibited a chart of the Winter heavens, with the principal suns 

 of the Constellations glowing by an application of radium. 



HOLDRIDGE 0. COLLINS, Secretary. 



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