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Clubs. It recommended that this committee be continued 

 and five more members added to it. 



The committee recommended further that the Academy 

 co-operate with other scientific organizations whose pur- 

 pose it is to promote the use of the metric system of 

 weights and measures, so that the public in general may 

 become familiar with the advantages of this system and 

 proper legislation be enacted; that a committee of five 

 members of the Academy be appointed to be known as the 

 Committee on Metric Sj^stem, Avho shall be responsible 

 for putting into effect the above measures. 



It was the committee's sad duty to announce the death 

 of Associate Professor William Logan Woodburn, who 

 for twelve years had been in the department of Botany 

 in Northwestern University; the death also of Mr. 

 Francis Daniels, who was to have read a paper before the 

 Academy at this meeting. Mr. Daniels Avas an attorney, 

 and for many years had been connected with The Pull- 

 man Co., Chicago. The death of Professor A. A. Tyler 

 of James Millikin University was also announced. 



The following committee on Metric System, as recom- 

 mended by the Resolutions committee, was appointed by 

 the President — Thos. G. Hull, Springfield, Chairman, G.* 

 A. Miller, Urbana, F. R. Watson, Urbana, F. D. Barber, 

 Normal, and A. C. Longden, Galesburg. 



The Auditing Committee reported that they had aud- 

 ited the accounts of the Treasurer and found them to be 

 correct. Report accepted. 



The committee on Duty-free Importation of Scientific 

 Apparatus reported as follows: 



Resolved: — (a) That The Illinois State Academy of 

 Science records its earnest hope that in the tariff legis- 

 lation now under consideration by the Congress of the 

 United States, provision may be made for duty-free im- 

 portation of scientific apparatus for the use of educa- 

 tional institutions, a privilege that has contributed in no 

 small degree to the wonderful progress made in science 

 and its applications in the educational institutions of this 

 country during the past few decades. 



(b) That this resolution be spread on the minutes of 

 the meeting and that certified copies of it be sent to the 



