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is best for the East and for the West alike? Will the West 

 join in promoting the spirit and method of science, in the 

 spirit and method of peace? In a word, will the West be 

 eminently wise or stupendously foolish? 



The Chairman then announced that a reception would be 

 given by the Illinois Chapter of Sigma Xi in the parlors of 

 Woman's Hall and the audience repaired thither. 



SESSION OF SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19. 



Morning, 



The meeting was called to order by President Forbes at 

 9:15. T. W. Galloway proposed an additional list of candi- 

 dates for membership and upon motion of E. J. Townsend 

 the persons named were elected. After some announcements 

 the following report of the committee on Ecological Survey 

 was presented by H. A. Gleason. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON AN ECOLOGICAL 

 SURVEY. 



Your committee on an ecological survey has practically re- 

 solved itself into a body of associate workers, engaged, each 

 on his own line, in a study of the ecology of the situations open 

 to him, the various lines of work being conducted, however, 

 with reference to subsequent unification and amalgamation as 

 parts of a comprehensive scheme of work for the entire state. 

 The committee has had two meetings, one held June 18, 1909, 

 at Havana, on the Illinois river, the site of the operations of 

 the Illinois Biological Station, and the other at Urbana last 

 evening, for the purpose of formulating this report. At the 

 Havana meeting the plans and lines of Avork of the Biological 

 Station, and those of individual members, were fully pre- 

 sented, discussed, and approved. A brief outline of the work 

 of the group for the year will be of interest to the Academy. 



Virtually all the work of the State Laboratory of Natural 



