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It is in some sense a laboratory where students are stimulated to work. 
the work in many cases counting as credits on university work. Again 
these reports are printed, and so this work becomes accessible to many 
outside the members of the Academy. Again, the Academy has established 
an extensive system of exchanges of publications with other societies, so 
that a large number of valuable publications are accumulated in the State 
Library to the credit of the Academy. 
Various sanitary problems have been discussed and some phases of 
bacteriology and some economic questions have been considered: as to the 
supply of coal, of building stones and of materials for all kinds of articles 
made of clay or shale. 
The list of presidents contains the names of many noted men who have 
done good work in the Academy. And the list of members is large, showing 
that hundreds of people have been inspired and stimulated by association 
with these prominent educators. <A large proportion of the members of the 
Academy are teachers, and through them thousands of young people in In- 
diana have been benefited and encouraged by the work of the Academy. 
The Indiana Academy of Science has been a success. It has accom- 
plished in a large way all that its founders hoped for. May it continue to 
prosper. 
