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IOWA ACADEMY OP SCIENCES. 
SUMMARY OF RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES. 
RECEIPTS. 
Balance from last year _$ 55.99 
Membership fees 37 00 
Annual dues from members 55. 00 
Proceedings sold 4.70 
Total _..$151.69 
EXPENDITURES. 
Stamps and stamped enveloves $ 4.84 
Printing programs, notices, receipts, etc.. 11.00 
Reprints of author’s extra s 32. 00 
Express and postage on proceedings 21.91 
Miscellaneous items of expense 9 97 
Total $ 79.72 
The committee on treasurer’s accounts reported as follows: 
To the Iowa Academy of Sciences: Your committee appointed to 
examine the accounts of the treasurer find the same to be correct. 
(Signed) G. E. Finch, 
A. A. Veblen, 
A, G. Leonard, 
Committee. 
Resolutions urgently opposing the pending bill in congress 
for the restriction of experiments on living animals were 
passed, also one in support of the movement for a director of 
scientific bureaus in the department of agriculture. 
A subscription was voted for the Pasteur monument fund. 
In addition to the appended papers, read in full or by title 
and which were by vote of the council referred to the secretary 
for publication, the following subjects were presented: 
Mr. Charles Carter, of Fairfield, remarked upon the Iowa 
Odonata, calling attention to what had been done in the way of 
study of our native species and requesting the members to 
assist him by sending specimens of such species as they could 
with a view to the preparation of a catalogue of the species of 
the state. 
Prof. A. H. Conrad, of Fairfield, read some preliminary notes 
on the Ophidia of Iowa, indicating the extent to which the 
species of the state are known, the probability of the rapid 
extermination of many of the species and the desirability of a 
prompt study of our native fauna. He requests material and 
correspondence. 
Professor Conrad exhibited an archseological specimen 
recently unearthed near Fairfield: a small box hollowed from 
