FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING. 11 



Minutes of the Fourth Annual Meeting 



Botany Building, University of Chicago. 

 Chicago. February IT and IS. IPll. 



SESSION OF FRIDAY. FEBRUARY r 



Morning. 



President Coulter called the meeting to order at ten o'clock a. m. 



Dean R. D. Salisbur>-. of the Universitj- of Chicago, then wel- 

 comed the members of the Illinois Academy of Science to the 

 University. 



"It is in full appreciation of the fact that the University of 

 Chicago and the lUinois State Academy are one in their general 

 purpose, namely, the spreading of scientific knowledge among 

 the people, that we are met here today. We are co-workers in 

 the same general field. Although the Academy is young, it has 

 already accomplished much, and has laid the foundation for 

 greater things in the future. Their pubhcations are worthy publi- 

 cations and have estabhshed a feeling of fellowship among the 

 men of science, a community of interest, which must result in 

 good in the days to come. Especially is this feeling perpetuated 

 by the stimulation to scientific work, which is the natural result 

 of the greater communication which is thus offered among the 

 men of science. 



"I think that another of the great services performed, is the 

 encouragement of the younger men. My first paper was delivered 

 before a state academy of science, and I still remember ver)- well 

 the feeling of encouragement which I felt at the time. I suppose 

 the same thing holds to this day, and it seems to me, therefore, that 

 this stimulation of young men and women within the field of 

 science, is one of the greatest functions of this organization. 



"Any organization which encourages work on the part of many 

 men ; which stimulates and arouses a widespread interest ; any 

 organization which has for one of its purposes the spreading of 

 useful information among the people of the state ; and any organi- 

 zation which promotes intercourse among men of science, must 

 be welcome at this Universit}- — or at any other universit}'. I 

 assure vou that the authorities of the Universitv are more than 



