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5. That officers shall be elected at the annual meeting and enter on 

 their duties at the end of the meeting. 



6. The Council shall nominate a candidate for each office, but each Sec- 

 tion may recommend to the Council a candidate for its vice president. 

 Additional nominations may be made by auy member of the Academy. 



The secretary read a necrological notice of Dr. Manly Miles, of Lansing, 

 a charter member of the Academy, who died February 15, 1898. Mr. 

 Bryant Walker made further remarks on the character and work of Dr. 

 Miles. 



It was voted that one thousand copies of Dr. Volney M. Spalding's pres- 

 idential address, entitled "A Natural History Survey of Michigan," be 

 printed and distributed by the secretary to members of the Academy, and 

 to others in his discretion.* 



In the absence of Dr. Spalding, who was too ill to be present at the 

 meeting. Professor Chas. A. Davis explained his views as to a preliminary 

 forestry survey, and after some discussion it was voted that Dr. V. M. 

 Spalding be chairman of a committee which should prepare for the signa- 

 tures of the members of the Academy a petition that the U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture should take steps to send a special commissioner to 

 investigate the forestry problem of Michigan. 



Dr. Lucius L. Hubbard, State Geologist, in response to requests, ex- 

 plained the value and importance of a careful survey of the State, and 

 exhibited samples of the maps made by the U. S. Geological and Geo- 

 graphical Survey. 



Officers were elected for the ensuing year as follows: 



President — Henry B. Baker, M. D., Lansing. 



Vice Presidents — Botany, Charles F. Wheeler, Agricultural College; 

 Zoology. Jacob Reighard, Ann Arbor; Sanitary Science, I>e*&§^ Fall, 

 M. D.. Albion: Agriculture, Clinton D. Smith, Agricultuj 



Secretary — Walter B. Barrows, Agricultural College 



Treasurer — W. H. Munson, Hillsdale. 



PAPERS PRESENTED AT THE FOURTH ANNEAL ME 

 ACADEMY OF SCIENCE, MARCH 30, APRIL 



1. Spanish Colonial Administration. Illustrated lecture (stereopti 

 Worcester, A. B. Not published. 



2. Methods of Plankton Investigation. Jacob .Reighard, Ph. B. Published in 

 full in Bull. U. S. Fish Commission, Vol. XVII, pp. 169-175. 



3. Factors in the Origin and Distribution of Species of Land Birds in Island 

 Groups. D. C. Worcester, A. B. Published as part of ''Contributions to Philip- 

 pine Ornithology." Proceedings U. S. Natl. Museum, Vol. XX (1898), pp. 567-625. 



-1. Mill: Fat in Comparison with Meat Fat and Seed Fats. Albert B. Prescott, 

 M. D., LL. D. Annual Report Mich. Dairy and Food Commissioner for 1899. 



5. A Word for Systematic Botany. W. .7. Beal. Ph. D. Not printed; abstract 

 on a following page. 



6. A Contribution to the Knowledge of the Flora of Tuscola and Huron Counties. 

 Charles A. Davis. Published in full in Botanical Gazette, 1898, p. 453. Abstract in 

 this report. 



7. How Palm Seedlings Appropriate Their Food. F. C. Xewcombe, Ph. D. 



8. Development of the Seed of Gossypittm lierbaceum. A. Van Zwaluwenburg. 



9. Concerning Some Michigan Plants. Charles F. AVheeler, B. S. 



10. The Morels Collected at the Agricultural College. Burton O. Longyear. 



11. Recent Investigations of Unicellular Algae. Julia W. Snow. 



12. Morphology of the Flower of Cypripcdhtm; Burton E. Livingstone. 



*The address was printed as directed and copies may be obtained from the secretary. 



