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general or any special fund in a Trust Company to keep the same 
invested and reinvested subject to the approval of the Finance Com¬ 
mittee and in the name of the Academy and to collect the revenues 
therefrom and deposit the same upon interest till expended. Such 
arrangement shall be made by a written article revocable at pleasure 
of the Finance Committee or of the Council.” 
Chapter VI, Art. 1. The word “ lawful ” was stricken out and 
the words “approved by the Finance Committee” were added after 
“ securities.” A like amendment was made to Chapter VII, Art. 1, 
Chapter IX, Art. 2. For the words a “semi-annual ” the words 
“ an annual ” was substituted and for “five ” the word “ten ” was 
substituted, the words “and July” being stricken out. 
Chapter II, Art. 4. The word “annual” was substituted for “semi¬ 
annual ’ ’ and a like amendment was made in Chapter IX, Art. 6. 
On favorable recommendation of the Council an offer from Mr. 
Maxwell Sommerville of $2,000 for the Academy’s interest in the 
American reprint of the Encyclopedia Britannica bequeathed to the 
Academy by the late Mrs. Sommerville, was accepted. 
The Academy is indebted to Mrs. Clara Jessup Moore for the 
sum of $5,000, the interest derived from which is to be used for the 
assistance of young women desiring to devote themselves to the study 
of natural history under the same rules and regulations as those 
governing the Jessup Fund. 
A contribution by the Curators of a number of crania ot American 
aborigines to the ethnological exhibit forming portion of the Colum¬ 
bian Exposition held at Madrid in commemoration of the discovery 
of America received the recognition of a bronze medal. 
With a view to securing a lowering of the rate of postage on 
specimens of natural history sent through the mails a committee ap¬ 
pointed for the purpose prepared and distributed a circular to a 
number of foreign societies and journals soliciting such influence 
with their governments as may help to secure the object desired. 
Until last summer the accumulated correspondence of the Academy 
from its foundation, together with a large number of documents and 
reports relating to the operations of its several departments, were 
securely placed, but with no systematic arrangement. Having, 
through the continued kindness of certain friends of the Academy, 
been again enabled to secure the services of Signor E. Fronani on 
certain days during a portion of the year, I have availed myself of the 
