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and published if need be. The State Biological Survey sug- 

 gests itself to me as the appropriate agency, for this is largely 

 the very purpose of its existence. In this way the Academy, 

 on the biological side, would become the field representative 

 of the Survey. The Survey would become an executive com- 

 mittee and guiding spirit of our IIHnois workers in biology 

 — in so far as our work is geographical. 



This Committee would need (1) a member who knows well 

 what has been done and what needs to be done in the state; 

 (2) a member who would be good at an analytic statement of the 

 problems and opportunities, in detail: and (3) a member full 

 of sympathy and knowledge of the limitations and possibili- 

 ties of the grade of biological workers for whom these sug- 

 gestions are spoken. 



John M. Coulter said in substance. — "One of the func- 

 tions of a State Academy has been well indicated by the gen- 

 tleman who just spoke. He has given an idea worth following 

 out. It has been my experience — and I have been attending 

 State Academies for many years, having recently been present 

 when the Indiana Academy held its silver wedding — that one of 

 the chief reasons for our meeting together is not to read papers^ 

 but to hold a fellowship conference. We can read the papers 

 at home. We all may be fired by attending an enthusiastic meet- 

 ing. 



F. C. Baker. — "Could not these amateur workers under 

 proper directions assist in the general ecological study of Illi- 

 nois by contributing notes and data on the natural history of 

 their immediate home region. These notes could be correlated 

 with the work of the trained workers." 



S. A. Forbes. — "This subject of Prof. Galloway's paper may 

 come up later when the report is presented by the ecological 

 committee. 



