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THE TWENTIETH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE 

 INDIANA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 



Tlie twentieth annual meeting of the Indiana Academy of Science was 

 held in Indianapolis, Thursday and Friday, November 24 and 25, 1904. 



Thursday at 8 p. m. the Executive Committee met in session at hotel 

 headquarters. 



President Carl L. Mees, at 9 a. m. Friday, called the Academy to 

 order in general session in the assembly hall of the Shortridge High School. 

 The transaction of routine and miscellaneous business occupied the atten- 

 tion of the Academy until II a. m., when the retiring President, Carl L. 

 Mees, delivered an address upon : ♦ ' Electricity and Matter ; Recent De- 

 velopments." Following this address came an adjournment until 2 p. m., 

 when papers of general interest were presented before the Academy as a 

 whole. From 3:30 to 5 p. m., the time for adjournment, sectional meet- 

 ings were held. 



THE SPRING MEETING OF 1904. 



The spring meeting of 1904 was held at Indianapolis, Thursday and 

 Friday, April 28 and 29. 



On Thursday evening an informal meeting was arranged at the Com- 

 mercial Club. The principal topic for discussion was the interference of 

 the Academy's set date of meeting with the dates usually chosen by t'^^ 

 American Association for tlie Advancement of Science. Tlie point was 

 finally settled by making the date of the 1904 winter meeting November 24 

 and 25. 



Friday morning most of the members of the Academy attended the 

 meetings of the Indiana Science Teachers' Association. 



Friday noon the Indianapolis members were the hosts at a luncheon at 

 the Commercial Club. 



Later various excursions were enjoyed by varioiis members, some visit- 

 ing the Kingan packing plant, others the Central Hospital for the Insane, 

 and still other enthusiasts tramped over the country north and northeast 

 of Indianapolis, under the leadership of W. S. Blatchley, studying the 

 geological and botanical features of that district. 



