THIRD ANNUAL MEETING. 



ANN ARBOR, MARCH 31, APRIL 1 AND 27 1897. 



The meeting was called to order at 2:45 p. m., President Sherzer in 

 the chair; about forty persons present. The minutes of the lgst regular 

 meeting were read, amended, and approved. The minutes of the last 

 field meeting (June 13, 1896) .were also read and approved. 



The report of the treasurer, Chas. E. Barr, was read, accepted and re- 

 ferred to an auditing committee, which reported later that the accounts 

 were correct. 



Twenty new members were elected, as follows: 



(Miss) Alice Brown, Ann Arbor; Flemming Carrow, M. D., Ann Arbor; 

 H. H. Chase, Linden; Paul A. Cowgill, Cassopolis; Charles J. Davis, 

 Lansing; Delos Fall, M. D., Albion; Mary E. Greene, M. D., Charlotte; 

 Thomas Gunson, Agricultural College; E. M. Houghton, M. D., Detroit; 

 Burton O. Long-year, Agricultural College; Charles E. Marshall, Ph. B., 

 Agricultural College; J. G. McClymonds, M. D., Ann Arbor; Jason E. 

 Nichols. Lansing; G. D. Perkins, M. D., St. Paul, Minn, (corresponding); 

 Rufus H. Pettit, Agricultural College; Albert B. Prescott, Ph. D., Ann 

 Arbor; (Miss) Harriett Putnam, Saginaw; Herbert E. Sargent, Detroit; 

 P. D. Smith, Greenville; Louis H. Strong, Grand Rapids. 



Prof. Jacob Reighard, from the committee appointed by the Council 

 to formulate a by-law relative to the organization of sub-sections, re- 

 ported as follows: 



"No plan which is adapted to all sub-sections seems feasible. We 

 recommend that the organization of subsections be left to the members 

 of the section concerned, and that the chairman of each sub-section 

 shall indicate annually what progress is being made." Report accepted 

 and adopted. 



The secretary was authorized to make such verbal changes in the 

 constitution and by-laws of the Academy as are necessitated by the 

 change in time of holding the annual meeting. 



The following resolution, submitted by Bryant Walker, was adopted 

 and the secretary was instructed to send a certified copy to the post- 

 master general at Washington: 



"Whereas, The free interchange of scientific material is of great public 

 utility as aiding in scientific research, and, whereas the rates of postage 

 as now fixed by the Universal Postal Union are excessive and practically 

 prohibit the use of the mails for scientific exchanges, 



