MINUTES OF TENTH ANNUAL MEETING 13 
geologist of the Academy, and Dr. Chamberlin, on being 
called for by the President, responded by calling attention to 
the multiplication of scientific societies, bureaus, etc., in Illi- 
nois. He also took a text from the first address of the even- 
ing, made by Dr. Nipher, and added some significant com- 
ments. He raised the question as to whether there had always 
been peace and harmony among the atoms and molecules of 
matter, or whether they may not have reached this state 
through a process of evolution similar to that evolution 
through which more complex forms of matter are passing 
now. 
Dr. Chamberlin was honored by being elected the first pres1- 
dent of the Academy and it was exceedingly fitting that he 
could be present at this tenth anniversary meeting and deliver 
the principal address of the meeting, as he did on the morning 
following this banquet session. 
Dr. A. R. Crook, Curator of the State Museum, spoke 
briefly of the relations of the institution over which he pre- 
sides, to the Academy, and in closing paid a beautiful tribute 
to Dr. S. A. Forbes, who was elected the second president 
of the Academy, and whom the members of the Academy also 
delight to honor along with Dr. Chamberlin. The following 
sentences are quoted directly from the remarks of Dr. Crook: 
“You know his unique history—a soldier in the civil war at 
eighteen, a captain at twenty; for forty years an investigator 
in cryptogamic botany and zoology, especially as this science 
cencerns itself with the relation of mammals, birds, fishes and 
insects to plant life and agriculture; the author of thousands 
of pages of scientific publications which have added to the 
agricultural wealth of the State, and even more remarkably 
tc the intellectual wealth. 
“The Academy is under lasting obligations to him and to no 
one are we more indebted, and of no one are we more proud, 
than of this soldier, scholar, teacher, author, and highly re- 
vered gentleman, Professor Stephen A. Forbes.’’ Dr. Forbes 
was compelled to be absent from this meeting, the first one 
that he had missed since the organization of the Academy. 
His absence, however was caused by the fact that his services 
were more urgently needed in looking after the interests of 
science before the State legislature. 
