MINUTES OF TWELFTH ANXUAL MEETING 11 



motion, it was voted that the officers offer for sale to 

 libraries or to individuals 150 full sets of i)ublished 

 transactions at $5.00 per set, net. 



On motion of Dr. Xoyes, the Academy voted, with but 

 two dissenting votes to endorse the movement for two-year 

 courses in fundamental science for secondary schools, as 

 suggested in a paper read by J. L. Pricer, and printed in 

 this volume. Dr. IS^oyes supported this motion by making 

 the jjoint that such a plan was in harmony with the move- 

 ment for a synthesis of the sciences such as botany, advo- 

 cated by Dr. Coulter in his symposium paper. 



Next, the President announced the following commit- 

 tees : Committee on nominations : De Wolf, Cowles, and 

 Pricer. Committee on resolutions; Pepoon, Forbes, and 

 Millspaugh. Committee on auditing : Van Cleave, Fuller 

 and Hessler. 



Following the business session, several papers of gen- 

 eral interest were presented, and then followed reports on 

 the forestry survey which had been conducted during the 

 previous year by members of the Committee on Ecological 

 Survey, at the suggestion and under the direction of Dr. 

 S. A. Forbes, chairman of the committee. 



At six thirty o'clock, the members of the Academy pres- 

 ent, and a large number of Jacksonville citizens, enjoyed 

 together a delightful dinner prepared by the ladies of the 

 First Christian Church, after w^hich Dr. Josephine Milligau 

 of Jacksonville, who had rcently returned from a year's 

 service under the Bed Cross in France, delivered an inter- 

 esting lecture on her work among the civilians of France. 



At eight thirty o'clock, the largest audience that has at- 

 tended an Academy meeting in several years assembled in 

 the Chapel of the Illinois Woman's College to hear Presi- 

 dent Salisbury's illustrated lecture on Porto Rico. 



The session of Saturday forenoon consisted of a sympo- 

 sium on the general topic : '^Science and Reconstruction." 



At noon, Saturday, the visiting members of the Acad- 

 emy were given a delightful complimentary luncheon by 

 the faculty of Illinois College, at Academy Hall of the col- 

 lege. 



