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COUNCIL AIEETING OF STATE ACADEMY OF SCI- 



ENXE. BOTANY BUILDING, UNIVERSITY OF 



CHICAGO, 4 P. M., MONDAY, NOV. 1st. 



There were present S. A. Forbes, J. M. Coulter, A. R. 

 Crook, J. C. Hessler. 



It was voted to accept the cordial invitation of the Univer- 

 sity of Illinois to hold the next meeting at Urbana. It was 

 further voted that the meeting begin at 2 P. M. on Friday, 

 the 18th of February and close Saturday afternoon, Febru- 

 ary 19th, after finishing the reading of the papers presented. 

 The program shall consist of a business meeting, presentation 

 of papers, address by the retiring president, and a symposium 

 on "The Relation of Pure and Applied Science respectively, 



(A) To the Progress of Knowledge and to Practical Af- 

 fairs, and 



(B) To Secondary Education." 



The symposium shall be participated in by five speakers 

 chosen by the council to present the subject from the point of 

 view of the biologist, the chemist and the physicist. 



Miss Isabel S. Smitli of Illinois College, Jacksonville, was 

 chosen as third member of the publication committee in place 

 of Dr. H. Foster Bain, who was elected at the last Academy 

 meeting, l)ut who had resigned on account of his removal to 

 California. 



The meeting then adjourned. 



A. R. Crook, Secretary. 



