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REPORT OF THE SECRETARY '"^EW VORK 



THE ILLINOIS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE 



Office of the Secretary- 

 State Teachers College, DeKalb, 111. 



COUNCIL MEETING 



At the call of President Knipp the Council Meeting was 

 held at the Quadrangle Club, the University of Chicago, 

 on June 21, 1921. All the members of the Council were 

 present, viz.. President Knipp, Past Pres. Cowles, Vice- 

 Pres. Eutli Marshall, Treas. Schulz, Librarian Crook and 

 Sec'y- Phipps. 



The Secretary reported that the Carbondale material 

 for the Transactions was nearly assembled, and soon 

 after July 1 it would be placed in the hands of the printer. 



Our membership relations with the A. A. A. S. concern- 

 ing initiation fees and dues were discussed, and the Secre- 

 tary was asked to take the matter up with Dr. Livings- 

 ton of the A. A. A. S., and President Knipp and Treas. 

 Schulz, and after adjusting fees and dues to have new 

 membership cards printed. 



By vote the President was empowered to invite the 

 Illinois Division of the Mathematical Association to affil- 

 iate with the Academy and to hold their meetings with us 

 hereafter. 



By vote the immediate appointment of chairmen for 

 the sectional meetings of the next annual meeting Avas 

 left with the President. 



By vote last year's committee on Ecological Survey 

 LO holds over for another year. 



The President was empowered to appoint a committee 

 of five, to be called the ' ' Committee on High School Sci- 

 ence and Clubs." This takes the place of two former 

 committees — Committee on Secondary Science and Com- 

 mittee on H. S. Clubs. 



The names of twenty-six (26) local and two (2) na- 

 tional candidates for membership, who had qualified since 

 the Carbondale meeting, were presented by Treas. Schulz 

 and elected. 



