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THe Twenty-FourtH ANNUAL MEETING oF THE INDIANA 
ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 
The twenty-fourth annual meeting of the Indiana Academy of Science 
was held at Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, Thursday, Friday and 
Saturday, November 26, 27 and 28, 1908. 
Thursday evening the Executive Committee met at the Lincoln Club 
and transacted the business coming before them. They directed the Sec- 
retary to request of the Legislative Committee, having the matter in 
charge, the doubling of the appropriation for the Academy. It was voted 
that the next meeting be a celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of 
the founding of the Academy and that an attempt be made to bring to- 
gether all the educational interests of the State, as well as to have present 
all the living ex-Presidents of the Academy. 
At nine o'clock Friday morning the Academy met in the chemistry 
building at Purdue. President Culbertson presided. The transaction of 
business and the reading of papers occupied the attention of the meeting 
until eleven o’clock, when the President delivered his address on “De- 
forestation and Its Effects Among the Hills of Indiana.” 
At noon a luncheon was served on the top floor of the chemistry build- 
ing, followed by an inspection tour of the buildings of the University. 
On reconvening at two o’clock a short business meeting was held, after 
which papers were read in sectional meetings. In the evening Professor 
H. T. Plumb, of the University, delivered an interesting lecture on the 
subject of “High Frequency Electric Currents.” 
Saturday morning at nine o'clock the Academy reconvened and com- 
pleted the reading of papers and the transaction of business, adjourning 
at eleven o’clock to meet in next annual session at time and place selected 
by the program committee. 
