COTsTTEjSTTS 



Officers 3 



Minutes of Organization Meeting 4 



Lecture by W J McGee 9 



Constitution and By-Laws 11 



The Advantages of a State Academy of Science (abstract) — 



T. C. Chamberlin 15 



History of Former State Natural History Societies of Illinois — 



S. A. Forbes 18 



Symposium on Outlook for Young Men in Various Sciences 31 



Anthropology — W J McGee 31 



Botanj'^ — John G. Coulter 34 



Chemistry — W. A Noyes 40 



Geology — H. Foster Bain 43 



Physics — Henry Crew 46 



Zoology— H. V. Neal 48 



Minutes of First Regular Meeting 53 



Abstracts of Par-ers Presented 57 



Biotic Zones and Districts in Illinois — Charles A. Hart 57 



A Case of Phosphorescence as a Mating Adaptation — T. W. 



Galloway 58 



Some Problems Connected wirh the Coals of Illinois — S. W. 



Parr 59 



Desirability of a Systematic Ecological Survey — H. C. Cowles.. 61 



A State Ecological Survey E. N. Transeau 61 



A Virgin Prairie in Illinois — H. A. Gleason 62 



Occurrence of Oil and Gas in Eastern Illinois — H. Foster Bain. . 63 



Illinois Trees— T. J. Burrill 65 



Plant Pathology in Its Relation to Other Sciences — E. J. 



Reynolds 67 



Relation of the State Academy to Natural History Survey of 



the Chicago Academy of Sciences — F. C. Baker 68 



Farm Water Supply — Edward Bartow 69 



Symtosium on "The Atmosphere," participated in by T. C. 

 Chamberlin, A. P. Carman, H. C. Cowles, J. M. Coulter, 



Wm. A. Noyes, Charles E. M. Fischer, H. Foster Bain 71 



Recent Advance in Spectroscopy — A. A. Michelson 80 



Council Meeting, Chicago, May 8, 1908 94 



List of Members 95 



Index 105 



