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REPORTS OF OFFICERS AXD COMMITTEES 



Secretaey's Report 

 Jacksonville,, March 21, 1919 



Xo meeting of the Council has been held during the year. 

 All business of the Academy, including the arrangements 

 for this meeting, has been carried on by correspondence. 

 This variation from the usual practise was suggested by 

 the urgent necessity of reducing the expenses of the 

 Academy to the minimum. 



In accordance with the motion adopted at the Joliet 

 meeting giving the Council power to perfect an affiliation 

 of the Academy with the Division of State Museum, of the 

 Department of Registration and Education, of the State 

 Government, the secretary took the matter up with Dr. 

 Francis W. Shepardson. Director of the aforesaid depart- 

 ment, early last spring. After much correspondence and 

 one personal conference with Dr. Shepardson. he finally 

 submitted a very simple plan of affiliation under date of 

 Dec. 7, 191S, as set forth in the following letter and plan : 



December 7, 1918. 

 Mr. J. L. Pricer, 

 Illinois State Xormal University, 

 Normal. Illinois. 

 Dear Mr. Pricer : 



After conference with Mr. Crook on the general plan of 

 affiliation, I am sending you a revised statement which is 

 simpler than the one I gave you under date of December 5. 



Should this general plan be approved by you, I think 

 there will be no difficulty. I feel that in view of the state 

 appropriation, the Chief of the Museum ought to be a 

 member of the Executive Committee, as in a sort of way. 

 the protector of the interests of the State. The oversight 

 by the State Museum Board, in my judgment would be 

 extremely general since their feeling would naturally be 

 entirely friendly to the Academy. But as the Code pro- 

 vides that this Board shall have general oversight of the 

 Museum, it is put into the arrangement as a matter of 

 courtesv. 



