ADDRESSES 37 
PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS 
PRODUCER, DISTRIBUTOR, CONSUMER 
Wo. TRELEASE, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 
This meeting marks the tenth anniversary of the organiza- 
tion of the Illinois Academy of Science. Lacking none of the 
features which have made the earlier meetings interesting and 
profitable to the members in attendance, and helpful and 
stimulating to the hospitable citizens of the community in 
which it is held, it enjoys the peculiar good fortune of count- 
ing among its participants a number of distinguished scholars 
who honor us by their presence as representatives of other and 
older bodies of men working together in other places for pur- 
poses very similar to our own if not identical with them. How 
they see and are meeting the problems and difficulties of or- 
ganization for collective effort, we shall hear from their own 
lips and to our benefit. Perhaps, even, they may tell us 
directly how we can escape some of the pitfalls that they see 
us headed for, and that they have had to climb out of them- 
selves. 
Concurrently with our meeting, a prominent feature of 
which is the symposium on public health that Dr. Beard has 
so successfully planned, there is being held a gathering of 
physicians representative of several counties of the State. If 
a double program has been arranged for the two meetings, it is 
because time was not adequate for making one program better 
serve the purpose of the meetings as a whole. It was hoped 
some months ago that at this time an organization might be 
effected of the collegiate mathematicians of the State, thus 
bringing to our meeting place active interest in a field of 
science that is lacking to our programs though its exponents 
are to be found among our members. That this organization 
could not be arranged for in connection with this meeting, does 
not preclude the possibility and hope that our later meetings 
may be enriched by such an affiliation. 
Among the delegates to this meeting are representatives 
of several activities of the commonwealth lying in our field— 
sanitation, sewerage, and pure water, inquiry into the biolog- 
