14 ILLINOIS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE 



I have already arranged for the inclusion in the budget 

 of an item of a thousand dollars i)er annum for the Acad- 

 emy, this being contingent upon the closing of the arrange- 

 ment on your part. 



Yours very truly, 



F. W. Shepardson, Director. 



A Plan of Affiliation Between the Illinois State 

 Academy op Science and the State Museum 



1. The Illinois State Academy of Science, by action at 

 its annual meeting, declares itself to be an affiliated divi- 

 sion of the State Museum Division of the Department of 

 Registration and Education of the State of Illinois. 



2. The Illinois State Academy of Science agrees to 

 seek the Council and advice of the Board of State Museum 

 Advisors, created under the provisions of the Civil Ad- 

 ministrative Code of Illinois in all matters which concern 

 the general relations between the two divisions. 



3. The State Museum at Springfield shall be the depos- 

 itory for the books and other property of the Academy. 

 The Chief of the State Museum division of the Department 

 of Registration and Education shall be librarian and cus- 

 todian, and, during the continuance of this arrangement, 

 shall be ex-officio a member of the Executive Committee 

 of the Academy. 



4. With the exception of the addition of the Chief of 

 the State Museum to the Executive Committee, the consti- 

 tution of the Illinois Academy of Science, and its present 

 methods of procedure, need not be changed under this 

 arrangement. 



5. The Department of Registration and Education, on 

 its part, will seek through the State Museum division, an 

 annual appropriation from the legislature toward the ex- 

 penses of the printing of reports and other publications of 

 the Academy and for postage, express and stationery con- 

 nected therewith. 



6. This affiliation arrangement may be terminated at 

 any time by either party but only upon a year's notice in 

 advance. 



