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REPORT OF THE BOTANICAL DIVISION OF THE INDIANA 



STATE BIOLOG-IOAL. SURVEY. 



LrciEN' M. Underwood, Director. 



The iDdiana Academy of Science at its spring meeting originated the 

 State Biological Survey by the appointment of three directors who were 

 instructed to organize the survey and prepare for the winter meeting a 

 Bibliography that would show the present status of the knowledge of the 

 state flora and fauna, recording in accessible form what had been already 

 written concerning them. It was further thought desirable to outline 

 certain features of new work that could be reasonably attempted during 

 the season of 1893. In order to make known the purposes of the survey 

 the following general statement was published and somewhat widely d s- 

 tributed through the state in July last : 



BIOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIANA. 

 CiRCrLAR No. 1. 



At the last meeting of the Indiana Academy of Science, at Terre Haute, 

 a Biological Survey was established for the State of Indiana, and the un- 

 dersigned were appointed Directors to organize the survey and outline the 

 preliminary work ordered by the Academy. 



It is the purpose of the survey : — (1) To ascertain what has already been 

 accomplished in the direction of making known the character and extent 

 of the life of the state, and to this end to prepare a complete bibliography 

 of materials bearing on the botany, zoology and palaeontology of Indiana, 

 to be published by the Academy. (2) To associate the various workers 

 throughout the state, and so correlate their labors that all will work to- 

 gether towards a definite end, and ultimately accomplish the main pur- 

 pose of the survey, namely, — the making known of the entire fauna and 

 flora of Indiana, its extent, its distribution, its biological relations, and its 

 economic importance. (3) To stimulate the teachers of biology throughout 

 the state to encourage in their pupils the accumulation of material, which 

 shall make known the local extent and distribution of life-forms, and thus 

 contribute facts that will be useful in the survey and at the same time de- 

 velop acute observers for continuing the study of the natural resources of 

 the state. It is thus intended that the colleges and secondary schools will 

 form with the. survey a mutually helpful delation. (4) Ultimately to 

 secure for the Academy a collection that will illustrate the biology of the 



