14 ILLINOIS STATE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE 



Council Meeting, Galesburg-, May 3, 1923 



The Council met with the Local Committee of Arrange 

 ments at Custer Hotel, Galesburg, on Friday, May 3 

 Final arrangements for the Annual Meeting were dis- 

 cussed and all plans completed. 



The Treasurer presented 20 new names to be voted on 

 at the Academy business meeting for membership. Fa- 

 vorable action was taken on all the names. 



A letter from H. E. Ewing, one of our members in 

 Washington, D. C, and an appointed delegate to the 

 Spencer Fullerton Baird Memorial Committee meeting 

 held in February, was read and approved and placed 

 on file. This report stated that the following three reso- 

 lutions were adopted, and the Memorial Committee is 

 to carry them out: 



First — That the Congress be memorialized to estab- 

 lish in the City of Washington a museum of fisheries and 

 oceanography, a laboratory and a public aquarium as a 

 memorial to Spencer Fullerton Baird. 



Second — That there be established a fund for the en- 

 couragement of research and exploration in the direction 

 in which Spencer Fullerton Baird was a leader. 



Third — That the name of Baird be given to the labora- 

 tory of the Bureau of Fisheries at Wood's Hole, Massa- 

 chusetts. 



A letter from the general secretary of the A. A. A. S. 

 was read, outlining their change in policy concerning the 

 collection of dues from members who were also members 

 of affiliated State Academies. The letter was handed to 

 our Treasurer in order that he might cooperate with the 

 Washington office of the A. A. A. S. in the matter of col- 

 lecting dues from onr national members. 



