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who have been doing everything that they can for me, or rather, I should 
say to me and eventually for me. 
However, the investigation with all that has gone along with it has 
fatigued me very much and I was glad to reach home Saturday night. 
Now this has been a painful and possibly serious affair with me, and 
therefore, you will see that I must at once abandon all attempts to do 
anything for the Academy of- Science for some time to come. 
I regret this very much as there are several things which should be 
looked after in regard to the Emerson McMillin Fund. Not one single 
transaction has taken place so the financial situation is precisely as I 
have reported plus, of course, the income from our invested funds, so it 
will be very easy to determine approximately what amount will be 
available on the 19th of April. I hope to be able to prepare something in 
the form of a report by that time. 
Yours faithfully, 
T. C. MENDENHALL. 
Upon motion duly made and carried, the Trustees were 
instructed to conserve the income from the McMillin Fund 
during the ensuing year. 
Report of the Committee on State Parks and Conservation. 
The Chairman of the Committee, Prof. Herbert Osborn, 
stated that the committee had not succeeded in having any 
formal meetings as it is made up, very properly, of members 
scattered through the State and there had been no convenient 
occasion on which to get the members ‘together. It is of 
interest to report, however, that there has been distinct progress 
in the matter of reservations for park, game refuge and forestry 
purposes which have materially extended the areas devoted to 
these purposes and which we may count as distinct advances. 
The Bryan State Park which includes part of the Clifton Gorge 
and which was mentioned in our last report as likely to be 
finally accepted by the State has now definitely become State 
property and is administered by the State Experiment Station, 
so that it may be counted as permanently devoted to park and 
reservation purposes and its scenic, biologic and geologic fea- 
tures preserved for future students. 
At a meeting of the State Forestry Society last September, 
to which our members were invited, as pointed out in the 
Secretary’s Report, we had an opportunity to observe the 
conditions and possibilities there under very favorable cir- 
cumstances. 
