14 ILLINOIS STATE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE 



The president appointed the following auditing commit- 

 tee : Stuart Weller, Clarence Bonnell and C. E. Mont- 

 gomery. 



Next in order came the reports of committees. President 

 Cowles reported for the committee on ecological survey as 

 follows : 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON ECOLOGICAL 

 SURVEY, 1920-1921 



During the past season, this committee has been rather 

 inactive, except for the work of individual members. The 

 undersigned, with various of his students, has continued 

 the work previously begun in Cook County; most of the 

 townships in this county have now been surveyed, and maps 

 with descriptive texts have been prepared. Prof. Waterman 

 has made a survey of a number of the bog areas in Lake 

 County, and has prepared a preliminary report of this work 

 for the Carbondale meeting. Prof. Fuller and State Forester 

 Miller have made forest studies of an ecological nature in 

 Alexander County, also reported in the Carbondale meeting. 



Henry C. Cowles, 



Chairman. 



President Cowles also reported that the legislation com- 

 mittee had met the appropriation committee of the State 

 Senate and House, and that there was every reason to be- 

 lieve that the state would continue the publication of the 

 Transactions of the Academy as during the past two years. 



Prof. Barber reported that the committee on the con- 

 dition of science courses in the secondary schools did not 

 at this time desire to make any report. An extensive report 

 had been presented in Volume XI. 



Prof. Knipp for the committee on High School science 

 clubs reported sending out letters to High Schools in the 

 southern portion of the state, calling attention to the oppor- 

 tunity of sending delegates to the State Academy meeting. 

 He suggested that this work be continued in other parts 

 of the state. 



