Academy, and the Treasurer presented a statement of the receipts 

 and disbursements during the last year, asking for a Committee to 

 audit his- accounts. Messrs. Spalding and Low were appointed such 

 Committee, with instructions to report at the next meeting of the 

 Directors. 



The Secretary was authorized to purchase such book-cases as 

 he may think necessary for the proper arrangement of the large 

 accumulation of literature which has made such a congestion in the 

 -Academy oflice that access to any particular volume is practically 

 impossible. 



Whereas, at the Annual Meeting on June 6, 1919, only ten 

 Directors were elected, now under the provisions of Article VII of 

 the By-Laws, Mr. Theodore Payne was unanimously elected to the 

 vacancy. 



The election of Officers for the ensuing year resulted in the unani- 

 mous choice of the following named gentlemen, viz: 

 Holdridge O. Collins, President. 



Mars F. Baumgardt, First Vice-President. 



Anstruther Davidson, Second Vice-President. 



Arthur B. Benton, Third Vice President. 



Samuel J. Keese, Treasurer. 



George W. Parsons, Secretary. 



The President-elect appointed the following committees, to-wit: 

 Committee on Publication. 

 William A. Spalding, 

 Anstruther Davidson, C. M., M. D., Samuel J. Keese. 



Committee on Finance. 

 Samuel J. Keese, George H. Beeman, Arthur B. Benton. 



Committee on Program. 



Mars F. Baumgardt, Samuel J. Keese, Triumph C. Low. 



The following named applicants were elected members of the 

 Academy, viz: W. F. Alder, Mrs. N. Irene Beebe, John Comstock, 

 Maurice Gradwohl, Mrs. O. G. Jones. 



It was unanimously resolved to abolish and discontinue the 

 Zoological Section, as all discussions in that branch of the Sciences 

 can be embraced in the broader Section of Biology. 



There being no further business, the Board adjourned. 



Holdridge O. Collins, 



Secretary. 



