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Dr. B. W. Evermann one of the most valuable compilations that has been 
prepared, and 
Wuereas, we learn that the Commission is unable to publish it out of its 
funds, therefore 
Ber IT RESOLVED, By the Indiana Academy of Science, in regular session, 
that we express our belief in the great value of this work, in its importance 
to scientific students, not only in America, but throughout the world, and in 
the desirability of havyingit published at an early date so as to be accessible, 
and 
Ber IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That a committee of five (5) members be 
appointed to represent the Academy in an endeavor to secure the early pub- 
lication of this report. 
On motion, the Academy appointed the following Committee: Amos 
W. Butler, Dr. Charles B. Stoltz, C. C. Deam, D. M. Mottier, and Glenn 
Culbertson. 
The General Papers were then called for; “1” to “6” responded, after 
which the Academy went into Sectional Meetings as follows: 
Section A.—Chemistry, Geology, Mathematics, Physics. W. A. Cogs- 
hall, Chairman, A. J. Bigney, Secretary. 
Section B.—Anatomy, Bacteriology, Botany, Zoology. Stanley Coulter, 
Chairman, H. E. Enders, Secretary. 
Adjourned at 5:30 for dinner at the Claypool at 6:15 at which the Pres- 
ident’s address was read on the “Origin of the Universe.” 
9:00 A. M. December 4. 
GENERAL SESSION. 
Business— 
On motion of W. M. Blanchard the following resolutions was adopted: 
RESOLVED, as the sense of the Indiana Academy of Science that the 
Commission having in charge the matter of adequate and proper celebration 
of the State’s Centennial, could do no more fitting and practical thing in the 
way of a permanent memorial of the one hundredth anniversary of the 
State’s admission to the Union, than to inaugurate at this time and carry 
to consummation a plan to purchase, through action by the General Assembly 
several tracts of land in Indiana for public park purposes for the people. 
On motion the following committee was appointed to carry out the pro- 
