FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING. 109 



5. That officers shall be elected at the animal meeting: and enter on 

 their duties at the end of the meeting. 



6. The Council shall nominate a candidate for each office, but each Sec- 

 tion may recommend to the Council a candidate for its vice president. 

 Additional nominations may be made by any niember of the Academy. 



The secretary read a necrological notice of Dr. Manly Miles, of Lansing, 

 a charter member of the Academy, who died February 15, 1898. >Mr. 

 Brvant Walker made further remarks on the character and work of Dr. 

 Miles. 



It was voted that one thousand copies of Dr. Volney M. Spalding's pres- 

 idential address, entitled *^'A Natural History Survey of Michigan," be 

 printed and distributed by the secretary to members of the Academy, and 

 to others in his discretion.* 



In the absence of Dr. Spalding, who was too ill to be present at the 

 meeting. Professor Chas. A. Davis ex])lained his views as to a preliminary 

 forestry survey, and after some discussion it was voted that Dr. V. M. 

 Spalding be chairman of a committee which should prepare for the signa- 

 tures of the members of the Academy a petition that the U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture should take steps to send a special commissioner to 

 investigate the forestry j)roblem of Michigan. 



Dr. Lucius L. Hubbard, State Geologist, in response to re(iuests, ex- 

 plained the value and importance of a careful survey of the State, and 

 exhibited samples of the maps made by the IT. S. Geological and Geo- 

 graphical Survey. 



Officers were elected for the ensuing year as follows: 



President — Henry P. Paker, M. D.. Lansing. 



Vice Presidents — Botany, Charles F. Wheeler, Agricultural College; 

 Zoology, Jacob Keighard, Ann Arbor; Sanitary Science, Delos Fall, 

 M. D., Albion; Agriculture, Clinton D. Smith, Agricultural College. 



Secretary — Walter P. I»arrows, Agricultural College. 



Treasurer — W. H. Munson, Hillsdale. 



PAPERS PRESENTED AT THE FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE MICHIGAN 

 ACADEMY OF SCIENCE, MARCH 30, APRIL 1 AND 2, 1898. 



1. Spanish Colonial Ad.uiinistraiion. Illnstrated lecture (stereopticon) by D. C. 

 Worcester, A. B. Not publislied. 



2. Methods of Plankton Investiiiarion. Jacob Rei,uiiar(l, Pli. B. Published in 

 full in Bull. U. S. Fish Commission, \o\. XA^II, pp. 109-175. 



.3. Factors in the Origin and Distribution of Species of Land Birds in Island 

 Groups. D. C. Worcester, A. B. Published as part of '-Contributions to Philip- 

 pine Ornitholo.ay." Proceedings U. S. Xatl. Museum. Vol. XX (ISUS), pp. .")(JT-G25. 



4. Milk Fat in Comparison with Meat Fat and Seed Fats. Albert B. Prescott, 

 M. D., LL. D. Annual Kei)oi1 Mich. I>airj- and Food Conunissioner for 1899. 



5. A Word for Systematic Botan.v. w". .T. Beal, lii. D. Not printed; abstract 

 on a following page. 



(!. A Contribution to the Knowledge of the Flora of Tuscola and Huron Counties. 

 Charles A. Davis. Publisiied in full in Botanical (Jazelle, l.S9(S, p. 453. Abstract in 

 this report. 



7. How Palm Seedlings Appropriate Their Food. !•'. C. Xewcombe, Ph. D. 



iS. Development of tlie Seed of (lossmiiinii licrbdciinn. A. \'an Zwaluwenburg. 



9. Concerning Some Michigan I'lants. Charles F. Wlieeler, B. S. 



10. The Morels Collected at tlie Agricultural College. Burton O. Longyear. 



11. Recent Investigations of Unicellular Algae. Julia W. Snow. 



12. Morphology of tlie Flower of Cijpriiirdiinit. Burton K. Livingstone. 



♦The address was printed as directed and copies may be obtained from the secretary. 



