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glad to welcome you here, and to put at your disposal any facili- 

 ties which we may have. And although we are way off in the 

 corner of the state, I assure you that you will always be welcome 

 here. Speaking for the University, I hope you will have a most 

 successful session." 



President Coulter. — "We shall now proceed to the business 

 matters which precede our more serious purpose in being here, 

 and the first is the report of the secretary." 



REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



Minutes of Previous Meetings. — The minutes of the third 

 annual meeting held at Urbana, February 18 and 19, 1910, ap- 

 proved by the council, were published in Volume III of the 

 Transactions and sent to members in good standing on June 20th, 

 and thereafter to members as rapidly as their annual dues were 

 paid. 



Report of the meeting of the council held at Decatur June 14th 

 was sent to members in the latter part of that month. 



Membership. — The secretary records with regret the death 

 of Charles Reid Barnes, Ph.D., Professor of Plant Physiology 

 at the University of Chicago; Frank G. Barnes, D.D., ex-president 

 of Wesleyan University, Bloomington ; J. Carl Stine, Superin- 

 tendent of Public Schools, Virden, and J. A. West, A.M., of the 

 State Entomologist's office, Urbana. 



It happens that all of these gentlemen were personally known 

 to the secretary and all had shown some especial interest in the 

 State Museum by personal visits or by letters written in behalf 

 of the museum. Memoirs will be presented by members of the 

 Academy intimately acquainted with them. 



It is a matter of gratification that our list of members now 

 contains 371 names. A hasty estimate shows the distribution to 

 be about as follows : Normal, 2 ; Charleston, 4 ; St. Louis, 6 ; 

 Field Museum, 9 ; Decatur, 10 ; Evanston, 10 ; University of Chi- 

 cago, 20 ; Springfield, 29 ; Chicago, 68 ; scattered localities, 103 ; 

 Urbana, 110; total, 371. The greatest following is at Urbana, 

 due, no doubt, to the large number of scientific workers at the 

 State University, to the enthusiasm of certain gentlemen there for 

 the Academy and the meeting of the Academy at Urbana last 

 year. There is reason to expect that our presence in this locahty 

 will cause Chicago to surpass all other portions of the State in 

 the number of members. 



