PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL SESSION 



OF THE 



IOWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



The seventeeuth annual session of the Iowa Academy 

 of Sciences was held in the rooms of the Iowa Geological 

 Survey at the capitol building, December 30 and 31, 1902, 

 In the business session the following matters of general 

 interest were passed upon. 



REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



To the Members of the lozva Academy of Sciences: 



During the past year fifteen additions were made to the list of fellows. 

 Eleven of these were associate members who having become eligible were 

 transferred to the fellowship list, and four were newly elected members. 

 Three fellows, Messrs. Faurot, Leverett and Miller, having removed from 

 the state, were transferred to the corresponding membership list. The 

 number of associate members was increased by the addition of twelve new 

 names. The revised roster now shows seventy-two fellows, fifty-nine asso- 

 ciate members and forty-eight corresponding members, making the total 

 membership of the academy 179. Four fellows, Messrs. Brown, Eckles, 

 Stull and Wilder, have removed from the state and should be transferred to 

 the list of corresponding members. During the year just past the academy 

 has suffered the loss of one of its most honored members, President W. M. 

 Beardshear, and I would recommend that a committee be appointed to pre- 

 pare a suitable memorial. 



The legislature last winter passed two bills relating to the publication of 

 the proceedings. One of these increases the number of pages that may 

 ■be printed from 250 to 300, thus adding fifty pages to the number the annual 



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