Minutes—Spring Meeting. 35 
BUSINESS MEETING AND GENERAL SESSION, FRipAyY, MAy 24, 1918. 
A business meeting of the Indiana Academy of Science and a gen- 
eral meeting of the Indiana and Illinois Academies of Science was called 
to order by the Vice-President, Dr. Charles Stoltz, in the grove near 
The Shades Hotel. 
The Membership Committee proposed the following names of persons 
for membership: 
Harlan Q. Acre, Shoals, Botany. 
Walter G. Gingery, Indianapolis, Mathematics. 
Howard M. Lahr, Markle, Botany and Chemistry. 
On motion, duly passed, they were elected to membership in the 
Indiana Academy of Science. 
On motion the reprints from the Proceedings are to have the imprint 
of the volume, date of publication, and paging of the issue from which 
they are taken. 
The matter is referred to the Publication Committee with power 
to act. 
On motion the Secretary is ordered to telegraph President E. B. 
Williamson an expression of keen regret in his absence from the Spring 
Meeting, and to extend greetings and best wishes of the Academy for 
his speedy recovery to good health. 
Vice-President Stoltz then appointed Stanley Coulter to take charge 
of the informal meeting that followed and to call upon various persons 
for addresses. 
Dr. Coulter gave a brief history of the Indiana Academy of Science 
and its relation to the scientific activities of the State. He expressed 
our appreciation of the presence of so large a number from the Illinois 
Academy, and pointed out that a number of these persons formerly were 
members of the Indiana Academy and had an important part in its 
early achievements and activities. 
A number of persons then were called upon to speak. 
Dr. Frank B. Wynn of Indianapolis: “Why I am a pathologist rather 
than a naturalist.” He pointed out the force of curiosity in the life of 
the investigator, and by means of a number of striking examples em- 
phasized the fact that curiosity is a driving power in achievement. 
Doctor W. A. Noyes of the University of Illinois expressed pleasure 
of the opportunity to attend this meeting and to renew acquaintances 
in the Indiana Academy of Science, of which he was a charter member. 
He spoke of the early years of the Academy and of its influence in 
academies and institutions of the country. 
John S. Wright of Indianapolis spoke on the needs of an endowment 
for the promotion and publication of research in the Academy. A por- 
