PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWENTIETH ANNUAL MEETING 

 OF THE NORTH CAROLINA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE 



Held at Wake Forest College, Wake Forest, N. C. 

 April 29-30, 1921 



The Executive Committee met at 2.00 P. M. on April 29th in the 

 Lecture Room of the Alumni Building with the following present: 

 Z. P. Metcalf, President, and C. S. Brimley, Acting Secretary, other 

 members, R. N. Wilson, F. A. Wolf, and A. H. Patterson, the latter 

 acting for H. R. Totten, who was absent. 



President Metcalf stated that the Legislative Committee author- 

 ized at the last meeting of the Academy to solicit funds from the 

 legislature had not been appointed, owing to the financial stringency 

 existing in the state at the time of the session of that body. He also 

 stated that affiliation with the American Association had been com- 

 pleted except for the official notice from the permanent secretary of 

 that organization. 



The Executive Committee then passed resolutions recommending 

 the following measures to the Academy for favorable action : 



1. Increasing the annual dues to !H;2.00 per member. 



2. .That the terms of the officers of the Academy should begin 

 with the adjournment of the meeting at which they are elected, and 

 should expire with the adjournment of the next regular annual meet- 

 ing. 



3. That the 10 per cent allo\\ed the Secretary-Treasurer should 

 be only on the Academy dues collected by him, and not on the Ameri- 

 can Association dues collected by him for that body in future. 



4. Appointment of a Publicity Committee. 



5. Appointment of a Committee on Preservation of our Natural 

 Resources. 



The Executive Committee then received and accepted the offer 

 of the University of North Carolina to hold the 1922 meeting at 

 Chapel Hill. 



President Metcalf then announced that he had appointed Messrs. 

 W. H. Pegram, R. N. Wilson, and A. H. Patterson to draw up suitable 

 resolutions on the death of past-President of the Academy J. J. 

 Wolfe, and that the same had been prepared and published in the 

 Mitchell Journal, and that he had also appointed Messrs. W. L. 

 Poteat and C. E. Brewer to do the same with regard to the death of 

 past-President J. S. Lanneau. 



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