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12 ILLINOIS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE 
Reports of Officers and Committees 
REPORT OF THE SECRETARY 
A meeting of the Council of the Academy was held at Urbata 
on April 7th, 1917, with all members present. The first item of 
business transacted was the acceptance, by unanimous vote, of 
the invitation extended to the Academy, by the mayor and 
other prominent citizens of Joliet, to hold the present peeiees 
in this cty. 
Next, the general character of the present program was de- 
termined, and the working out of details of the program Was 
left in the hands of the President and Secretary. Several other 
matters concerning the general policy and welfare of the 
Academy were discussed, but no definite action was taken on 
any of them. 
On June 29th and again, on July 5th, the Secretary Was in- 
formed by Dr. A. R. Crook, of the Committee on Legislation, 
that House Bill No. 853, containing a provision of a thonsand 
dollars a year for the publication and distribution of the ‘Acad- 
emy Transactions, had been passed by both houses of the legis- 
lature and signed by the governor. The second letter from Dr. 
Crook contained a copy of the bill, with the Academy appro- 
priation set forth plainly in black and white. This coavinced 
the Committee on Publications that the money so much needed 
by the Academy was at last within reach and they proceeded to 
arrange for the publication of Volumes IX and X of our Trans- 
actions, the manuscripts of which were in our hands. 
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I should say here that no meeting of the Committee on Pub- 
lications was held to discuss the policy to be followed under 
this supposed new order of things. The business wis carried 
on by correspondence and the policy adopted, was inthe main, 
projected by the Secretary and consented to by the other mem- 
bers of the committee. In projecting the policy which was 
adopted by the committee, I was influenced by a irm belief 
that there was little liklihood that such aid from the State 
would not be continued in the future, since it had been granted 
us this time in a time of great national stress, ard under a 
policy of the strictest economy on the part of the pre 
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