24 ILLINOIS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE 
RECOM MENDATIONS 
It is obvious that prompt and regular publications of Trans- 
actions is vital to the life and welfare of the Academy. Real- 
izing this fact, the secretary took it upon himself to enclose 
with the announcement of this meeting, a printed slip, mak- 
ing the suggestion that fifty or more members, pay up dues 
now, sufficient to make them life members. The Constitution 
provides that life members shall be such as have paid $20.00 
as dues. A few have responded to this call already. I should 
like to join these and urge others to do the same. Money 
raised in this way will be needed even if we do succeed in 
securing financial aid from the State, and a strenuous mem- 
bership campaign can easily replace the life members with 
new active members who will pay dues annually. 
It seems desirable that the Constitution and By-Laws of the 
Academy should be modified to make them include the pro- 
visions of certain resolutions and practices that have been, at 
different times, adopted by the Academy. I would therefore 
suggest that the Council be instructed to prepare such a codi- 
fication and present it to the members in time for action at 
the next annual meeting. 
The Committee on Secondary School Science needs to be 
reorganized, for all the members but one have either resigned 
or removed from the State. I regard a committee of this kind 
of vital importance to the Academy. It seems that we have 
made almost no progress in our endeavors to form some kind 
of workable relations with the high schools of the State and 
yet I believe that we should persist until something is ac- 
complished in this line. I believe that we should have some 
sort of junior membership to which high school students, and 
possibly college students might be eligible. Many high schools 
and colleges support science clubs of one kind or another, and 
I believe that it might be possible to affiliate these clubs with 
the Academy through a junior membership. 
I believe that the Academy should continue to form other 
working committees like the committee of Ecological Survey. 
Why not a committee of Public Health? Why should not the 
symposium part of the program usually initiate some new line 
of work that could be carried forward by a committee? 
J. L. Pricer, Secretary. 
