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ELEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE INDIANA ACAD- 

 EMY OF SCIENCE. 



Tlie eleventh annual meeting of the Indiana Academy of Science was held in 

 Indianapolis Friday and Saturday, December 27 and 28, 1894, preceded by a 

 session of the executive committee of the Academy, 8 p. M. Thursday, Decem- 

 ber 26. 



At 9 A. M., December 27, President Amos W. Butler called the Academy to 

 order in general session, at which committees were appointed, other routine 

 business transacted. After the disposition of the morning's business, papers of the 

 printed program, under the title of "General Subjects," were read and discussed 

 until adjournment at 12 M. 



The Academy met at 2 p. m. in two sections — biological and physico-chemical 

 — for the reading and discussion of papers. President Butler presided over the 

 biological section and Prof. W. A. Noyes acted as chairman of the physico- 

 chemical section. After the adj(juriiraent of the sectional meetings at 5 p. M. the 

 Academy again met in general session at 7 p. M. After the disposition of some 

 committee reports and other business, by request of the Academy, Mr. W. W. 

 Pfrimmer read a new poem, suljject : "Tlie Naturalist," following which was the 

 address of the retiring President, Mr. A. W. Butler, subject: ''Indiana; A 

 Century of Changes in the Aspects of Nature." 



Following this evening session of the Academy was a meeting of the executive 

 committee. 



Saturday, December 28, 9 a. m., the Academy met in general session for the 

 transaction of business, after which followed the reading and discussion of papers 

 until adjournment, 'i2:15 i*. M. 



