ILLINOIS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE 



Minutes of The Seventh Annual Meeting 



Northwestern University 

 Evanston, Illinois, February 20-21, 1914 



After call to order by President DeWolf, Professor Henry 

 Crew of Northwestern University gave an address of wel- 

 come to which President DeWolf responded. This was fol- 

 lowed by the President's address on "Recent Investigations of 

 the Mineral Resources of the Country." 



The following papers were then presented : "Earth Tides," 

 A. A. Michelson ; "The International Phytogeographical Ex- 

 cursion," Henry C. Cowles; "Recent Theories of Fertilization 

 and Parthenogenesis," F. R. Lillie. 



At six-thirty about one hundred members of the Academy 

 were welcomed by President Harris of Northwestern Uni- 

 versity at a banquet in the University Gymnasium. 



At eight o'clock the Northwestern Chapter of Sigma Xi 

 gave a reception at Science Hall in the Physics Laboratory. 



On Saturday morning, February 22, reports of the officer? 

 and committees were given, as follows : 



THE SECRETARY'S REPORT 



The sixth annual meeting of the Academy was held at Pe- 

 oria, February 21 and 22, 1913, in the auditorium of the 

 Bradley Polytechnic Institute. A Symposium on Sanitation 

 was presented in the morning and a lecture by Prof. Barnard 

 on "Some Late Results in Astronomical Photography," in the 

 evening. The proceedings in full are given in Vol. VI. of the 

 Academy's Transactions. At a meeting of the Council in the 

 office of the Geological Survey, Urbana, November 22, 1913 

 it was decided to hold the seventh annual meeting at North- 

 western University, February 20 and 21, 1914, and to recom- 

 mend that the eighth annual meeting be held at Springfield. 

 February 19 and 20, 1915. By having the place of meeting 

 understood a year in advance it was thought that certain ad- 

 vantages would accrue to the Academy. The publication com- 



