122 TRANSACTIONS OF THE ILLINOIS 



. 1 ha\e brought with \nc a inenioiial that was drawn up at the meet- 

 ing of the Jacksonville Horticultural Society, and adopted — It has al- 

 ready some signatures. 



If the President will allow me, I would like to read this memorial. 

 The President — If there is no objection Mr. Clayton will read. 

 Mr. Flagg read the memorial which is in the following words ; 



MEMORIAL. 



TV Ml? Honorable Senate and House of Representatives in Congress as- 

 sembled : 



The undersigned, citizens of the LTnited States, believing that the 

 interests of Agriculture demand a more complete system of crop reports 

 than the present limited appropriations will permit, and that the advant- 

 age of such a system would confer a benefit upon all classes of the peo- 

 ple in a greater or less degree, and that it is, therefore, a proper subject 

 of governmental action, do therefore respectfully ask that the appropri- 

 ations for the Signal Service be so increased as to allow the establish- 

 ment of Stations of Observation in the large agricultural districts, and 

 such extension of the warning signals, and other publications of results 

 and information as the Chief Signal Officer may find feasible and useful 

 to the. agricultural interests of the country. 



And believing further that the science of Meteorology, as it is be- 

 coming developed, may be made available to the material advancement 

 of the national prosperity, we, your petitioners, do humbly pray that, in 

 accordance with the suggestions of Lieutenant M. F. Maurv, an invita- 

 tion be extended to the governments of the earth to meet in conference, 

 for the establishment of an International System of Crop and Weather 

 Reports, and that your honorable body will commission one or more 

 scientists of this country as members of said conference. 



And they further pray that a sufficient appropriation be made to 

 carry out the purposes herein suggested, in such a manner as your wis- 

 dom may suggest, and with a degree of liberality which its great im- 

 portance may demand. 



Respectfully submitted, 



W. W. Clayton. 

 J. M. Gregory. 

 W. C. Flagg. 



[Note by the Secretary : This memorial was afterwards signed by 

 sixty members of the Society.] 



Mr. Clayton — I move that a committee of three be appointed who 

 shall be instructed to prepare, circulate, and forward to Congress a me- 

 morial upon the extension of the Signal Service. 



Mr. Flagg — I want to say a word in reference to that matter. I 



