LlbkARY 



REPORT OF THE SECRETARY, ew YORK 11 



BOTANICAL 

 QARBBH 



ILLINOIS STATE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE 



Office of the Secretary 

 State Teachers College, DeKalb. Illinois 



Council Meeting-, Urbana, June 3, 1922 



President W. S. Barley presided at the Council meet- 

 ing. The other officers present were, Past President C. 

 T. Knipp, Treasurer W. F. Sehulz, Librarian A. R. 

 Crook, and Secretary C. F. Phipps. 



It was voted to accept the invitation from Galesburg 

 to meet there in the spring of 1923 for the annual meet- 

 ing of the Academy. 



With the approval of the Council the President ap- 

 pointed the following chairmen of Sections for the annual 

 meeting in 1923: Chairman of Geology and Geography 

 Section, Professor Robert G. Buzzard, DeKalb. (Ad- 

 dress after September, 1922, State Normal Univ., Nor- 

 mal, 111.) ; chairman of Chemistry and Physics Section, 

 Professor E. D. Mullinix, Rockford College; and chair- 

 man of Psychology and Education Section, Dr. C. R. Grif- 

 fith, Urbana. The President is to appoint later the chair- 

 men for the Sections in Biology and Agriculture, and 

 Medicine and Public Health. 



It was voted that the present committee on High School 

 Science and Clubs be continued in office for another year, 

 that President Bayley be added to this committee, and 

 that Chairman J. C. Hessler be authorized to appoint 

 four additional members to this committee. 



By vote the present committee on Ecological Survey 

 was reappointed for another year. 



The suggestion was made that it would be advisable 

 for the committee on High School Science and Clubs to 

 ask Academy members in various towns and cities to 

 endeavor to start Science Clubs in their communities, 

 especially in the high schools and colleges. 



A report from the State Printer, relative to the cost 

 of printing the last volume of Transactions, was pre- 



