Minutes of the Spring Meeting 



OF THF 



INDIANA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 



JUNE 1. 2, AND 3. 1916. 



A pii1>lif' meeting of the Indiana Academy of Science was held in the 

 Anditorinm of Valparaiso University on the evening of June 1st. The 

 meeting was addressed by Dr. E. S. Riggs of the Field Columbian Museum 

 of Chicago upon the subject: "The Story of the Horse." Total attendance 

 twenty-four members of the Academy and about five hundred students, 

 faculty and townspeople. 



Friday June 2nd citizens of Valparaiso and members of the Faculty of 

 Valparaiso University conducted the members of the academy on an automo- 

 bile tour of northern Porter county. This afforded an opportunity to view 

 the lakes, marshes, sand dunes and hills of the Valparaiso Moraine. 



Luncheon was served by the university faculty on the shores of Lake 

 Michigan. A business session was held after the luncheon. 



BUSINESS SESSION— VALPARAISO. 



Waverley Beach, Ind., 



June 2, 1916. 



The meeting was called to order by the President, Andrew J. Bigney, 

 after which the membership committee reported the following named persons 

 for membership. 



Homer P>ancis Black, Valparaiso, Teacher — Mathematics. 



J. H. Cloud, Valparaiso, Teacher — Physics. 



Oliver E. Damron, Valparaiso, Teacher — Mathematics and Zoology. 



Earl Pinkerton, Valparaiso, Teacher — Zoology. 



Earl Price, Valparaiso, Teacher — Agriculture. ' 



S. A. Rifenburgh, Valparaiso, Teacher — Botany. 



George D. Timmons, Valparaiso, Teacher — Chemistry. 



A. A. Williams, Valparaiso, Teacher — Mathematics. 



Eber Hugh Wisner, Valparaiso, Teacher — Pharmacy. 



R. C. Yeoman, Valparaiso, Teacher — Engineering. 



Simon J. Young, Valparaiso, Teacher and Physician. 



C. A. Behrens, Purdue LTniversity, West Lafayette — Bacteriology. 



J. F. Barnhill, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis — 

 Professor of Surgery. 



George L. Bond, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis — 

 Professor of Medicine. 



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