SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING 11 



EXPENDITURES 



To O. W. Caldwell, sec'y., postage and expenses attend- 

 ing Peoria meeting $19.43 



To University of Chicago Press, printing 11.75 



To John C. Hessler, Treas., postage Nov. 26, 1912, to 



Feb. 21, 1913 $0.95 



Postage Feb. 26, 1913, to Dec. 29, 1913 9.11 13.96 



To H. C. Sampson, Chicago, addressing 1.85 



To West Paper Co., Decatur, 400 printed postal cards.... 5.65 



To O. W. Caldwell, Sec'y, telephone, stamps, drayage... . 4.50 



To E. N. Transeau, Sec'y, freight and postage 3.02 



To Charleston Courier, letter-heads, envelopes 8.00 



Total expenditures $68.16 



SUMMARY 



Total receipts, Feb. 22, 1913, to Feb. 20, 1914 $304.07 



Total expenditures 68.16 



Balance on hand Feb. 20, 1914 $235.91 



J. C. Hessler, Treasurer. 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON CONSERVATION 



Your committee continued from 1913, appointed to confer 

 with the railways of Illinois regarding the possibility of es- 

 tablishing plant reservations along the rights of way, begs 

 leave to make final report as follows, and asks to be dis- 

 charged from further efforts. 



The Illinois Central Railway, as owner of the oldest estab- 

 lished right of way in the state, was asked to join with the 

 Academy in establishing 24 plant preserves of limited area in 

 various counties from Jo Daviess to Alexander. If the rail- 

 way company would abstain from mowing such preserves until 

 after seeding time the Academy would properly placard them 

 and interest local botanists in their continuance and upkeep. 

 In this way many rare and rapidly vanishing prairie plants, 

 such as Habenaria leucophoea, Liliums superbum and Philadel- 

 phicum, Ranunculus ovalis, Geum ciliatum. Acuan Illinoensis, 

 Baptisia leucophoea, Psoralea tenuiflora, Amorpha canescens, 

 Petalostemum candidum, Linum sulcatum, Polygala incarnata. 



