12 MICHIGAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 



Secretary — Chas. A. Davis, Alma. 

 Treasurer — E. A. Strong, Ypsilanti. 



Papers presented at the First Annual Meeting of the Michigan 

 Academy of Science, Lansing. December 26 and 27, 1894. 



1. The Mammals of Michigan. Dr. J. B. Steere. Not Published. 



2. The Birds of Michigan. Prof. D. C. Worcester. Not published. 



3. Additions to the Flora of Michigan. C. F. Wheeler. Published, with further 



additions, in the report of the Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture 

 for 1898, pp. 82-91. 



4. The Cryptogamic Flora of Michigan. L. N. Johnson. Not published. 



5. Work of the Michigan Fish Commission. Prof. H. B. Ward. A preliminary re- 



port, never printed; for complete report see Bull. 6 of Mich. Fish Com- 

 mission. 



6. The Dinobryons of Lake Michigan. Dr. C. A. Kofoid. Not published. 



7. Our Society and a State Survey. Dr. W. J.. Beal. Printed in full in this re- 



port. See index. 



8. Practical Benefits of Bacteriology. Dr. F. G. Novy. Printed in full in this 



report. See index. 



9. Simian Characters of the Human Skeleton. Prof. W. H. Sherzer. Printed 



under the title "Platycnemic Man in New York'' in Report of State Geologist 

 [N. Y.] Vol. Ill, Paleontology. 1893, pp. 659-683. 



10. Data and Development of Michigan Archaeology. Harlan I. Smith. Part I. 



Notes on the Data of Michigan Archaeology. American Antiquarian, May 

 1896. Part II. The Development of Michigan Archaeology.— The Inlander, 

 VI. No. 8, 1896. 



11. Some Notes on the Michigan Coat of Arms. Prof. W. J. Beal. Printed in full 



in this report. 



12. Flora of Michigan Lakes. Prof. Chas. A. Davis. Printed in full in this 



report. 



13. Michigan Lepidoptera. Dr. L\ H. Wolcott. Net yet published. Outline in 



this report. 



14. Review of our Present Knowledge of the Molluscan Fauna of Michigan. 



Bryant Walker. Published by the author. Detroit, 1895. (pp. 1-27.) 



15. Distoma petalosum; a Parasite of the Crayfish. C. H. Lander. Not published. 



16. Bacteria and the Dairy. Prof. C. D. Smith. 



17. Tendencies in Michigan Horticulture. A. A. Crozier. Printed in full in this 



report. 



18. Futile Experiments for the Improvement of Agriculture. Dr. Manly Miles. 



Printed in full in this report. 



19. Vital Statistics. The Scientific Basis of Sanitation. Dr. C. L. Wilbur. Printed 



in full in American Lancet (Detroit), February, 1895. 



20. The Uredineae of Michigan. Harriet L. Merrow. Not yet published; ab- 



stract in this report. 



OUR SOCIETY AND A STATE SURVEY. 



BY W. J. BEAL. 

 (Read before the Academy, December 26, 1894.) 



Perhaps it may not be wise at present to say very much about our 

 young State Academy, as its reputation is yet to be made either for per- 

 forming long continued thorough work or for making desultory efforts. 



The thought of forming such a society is not new, but has been more or 

 less discussed at different times for thirty years or more. The organiza- 

 tion has long been delayed, because the number of capable scientific 

 people willing to sacrifice time, money, and hard unremunerative labor 

 has been very small. And these live in parts of the State remote from 



