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their duty to arrange for a series of public addresses, to 

 be given at the meetings to be held on the first Tuesday 

 evening of each month, beginning in October of each 

 year. It is made the duty of the Chairman of each Sec- 

 tion to give his inaugural address before the Institute in 

 the following order : The Chairman of the Scientific Sec- 

 tion the second Tuesday evening of October ; the Chair- 

 man of the Art Section the third Tuesday evening of Octo- 

 ber, and the Chairman of the Literary Section the fourth 

 Tuesday evening of October. The laws have also been 

 amended so as to make it the duty of the "committee 

 on public exercises" of the Institute to publish and dis- 

 tribute a programme of all public meetings of the Insti- 

 tute and its Sections, together with the dates of all their 

 regular meetings. The Chairman of each Section is 

 directed, under an amended law, to report to the Presi- 

 dent of the Institute on or before the fifteenth day of 

 September of each year, a complete list of all proposed 

 public papers from his Section, and further to report to 

 the Board of Trustees, on or before the same date, a gen- 

 eral estimate of the amount likely to be required by his 

 Section for the current year. Sections cannot incur ex- 

 pense or accumulate bills unless by authority of the 

 Trustees. 



These amendments, it is believed, will prove salutary 

 and operate only for the general good of the Institute. 



During the past year your Secretary has held corres- 

 pondence with a number of societies, that he might, if 

 possible, secure their publications for the Institute, and 

 he is pleased to report that in all cases, with a single 

 exception, his efforts have been successful. 



The name of the Institute has been placed on the ex- 

 change lists of the following societies, and their publica- 

 tions have already been sent to the Institute and placed 

 in its Library : 



American Philosophical Society ; American Geograph- 

 ical Society ; Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sci- 

 ences ;Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences; Missou- 

 ri Historical Society ; Minnesota Academy of Natural 

 Sciences ^ New York Academy of Sciences; Natural 

 History Society of Glasgow ; Rochester Society of Nat- 

 ural Science ; Wisconsin Academy of Natural Sciences 

 Arts mid Letters ; Imperial Society of Scit rices of Mos 



