40 PROCEEDINGS OP" THE INDIANA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 



(a) ISIemorial on the death of Dr. Dennis has been provided for on the 

 general program ; 



(b) On motion the Indiana Academy of Science endorses the genei'al 

 adoption of the Centigrade Scale in the United States. 



(c) A letter from Professor Lee F. Bennett, chairman of the special 

 committee, was read in which he reported very favorably upon a movement 

 now inaugurated to make the Dune Park a National Park. 



Adjournment. Andrew J. Bigney, President. 



Howard E. Enders, Secretary. 



General Session — Assembly Room, 9:1.5 a. m., December 8. 



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

 minutes of the executive committee were read and approved. 



On motion duly passed the five persons who were recommended by the 

 executive committee were elected Fellows of the Indiana Academy of Science. 



The followdng resolution was presented by the Chairman, C. H. Eigen- 

 mann of the Resolution Committee: 



Resolved. That a permanent Advisory Council, or (^ommittec of Five, 

 be appointed; second, that th(> Academy express its conviction that apijointivc 

 officers of the scientific Bureaus of the State should be persons of recogni/,e(l 

 scientific attainments; and third, that the newly elected Governor be in- 

 formed of the existence of the committee and of its readiness to help if the 

 governor finds it desirable to call for co-operation. 



The following Committee of Five, or Advisory Council, was named: 

 John S. Wright, chairman; Robert W. McBride. Glenn Culbertson, Stanley 

 Coulter and Wilbur A. Cogshall. 



The reguhir j)n)gram was then taken up, as follows: David Worth Dt'iuiis 

 — An Appreciation, by Allen D. Hole; John Pierce Durbin John — \n Ap- 

 preciation, by Wm. M. Blanchard. 



On motion, the Academy expressed its unanimous appreciation of tlu' 

 excellent papers of Professors Hole and Blanchard. 



After the reading of the papers by Professor Liiidlcy and Air. Blalclilcy, 

 the meeting adjourned. 



Afteknoox Session, l:.'iO p. m. 



The Cviinnlllcc on Membership proposed the names of the following persons 

 for membership : 



Floyd K. B«'ghtel, 204 E. :ird St., Bloomington, Teacher. 



Alfred L. Busliey, West Lafayette, Instructor in Agricullurc 



Forrest F. Craig, 027 E. Oth St., Bloomington, Stndciil. 



Aline Cullison, Lyons, Student. 



Toliias Dantzig. Bioominglf)n, Instructor in JNlathematies. 



Juan B. Dfinart'c. Room 1. "if ) State House. Indianapolis. Botanist. 



Martlui Doan, Karlhain College, IlicliiUDnd. Professor of Cliemistry. 



