16 ILLINOIS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE 



and prepared for the printer, and tliey have been in the 

 hands of the State Superintendent of Printing since 

 about the first of last month, I am expecting the galley 

 proof any day. Proof will be sent to the authors for 

 correction, and both volumes should be ready for dis- 

 tribution within the next two months. 



The next matter of business of the Council meeting 

 was the selection of the present place of meeting and the 

 planning of the present program. These may speak for 

 themselves without further comment. 



During the St. Louis meeting of the American Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science, the President, 

 the Librarian and the Secretary met with the Committee 

 on Affiliations, of the A. A. A. S., where the terms of 

 affiliations between state and local academies and the 

 American Association were considered and perfected as 

 finally adopted by the Council of the Association. These 

 terms of affiliation as reported in Science Jan. 9, 1920, 

 are as follows : 



1. That state and local academies may be affiliated 

 with the association on a financial basis that will yield 

 the association $4.00 net per member. 



2. That any state or local academy which concludes 

 arrangements for affiliation within the first six months 

 of 1920 may be accepted for the entire year 1920, fees 

 paid to the association before that date to be adjusted 

 in accordance with the detailed plan. 



3. Two alternative plans are considered with respect 

 to membership in the academies, namely: 



(a) All members of the academy to become members 

 of the association. 



(b) To establish two grades of membership, of which 

 one will be national, involving membership in both the 

 academy and the association, the other local, consisting 

 of academy members only. 



4. The academies will collect joint dues and transmit 

 the association's share to the treasurer. 



Following the adoption of these terms of affiliation by 

 the American Association, the President and the Secre- 

 tary of the Academy have taken it upon themselves to 



