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situations being found, fairly convenient of access from centers 

 of investigation, it is believed by us that graduate students and 

 others can be interested to study and report upon them, pro- 

 vided that some allowance of money can be made to cover the 

 expense of the necessary travel; and some such co-operation 

 the director of the State Laboratory of Natural History, who 

 is also chairman of this committee, is prepared to offer us 

 because of the importance of such studies as a contribution to 

 the natural history survey of the state, in progress under his 

 direction. 



By the Committee : 

 Charles C. Adams, Hermann S. Pepoon, 



Frank C. Baker, Victor E. Shelford, 



Henry C. Cowles, Edgar N. Transeau, 



George D. Fuller, Stephen A. Forbes, 



Thomas L. Hankinson, Chairman. 



Evanston, Illinois, February 20, 1914. 



