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CONTENTS. 



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Officers and Commiitees for 1913-1914 5 



Session of Friday. February 21 — Afternoon: 



Address of Welcome by Dean Burgess 7 



Reply by President Crew 7 



Reports : 



Secretary 7 



Treasurer 9 



Membership Committee 10 



President's Address: 



Symposium on Sanitation. 

 Session of Friday, February 21 — I>vening: 



Social Hour and Banquet 10 



Address by Professor E. E. Barnard 11 



Session of Saturday, February 22 — Morning: 



Committee Reports 11 



Resolution on Birth and Death Registration 11 



Resolution Relating to High Schools 11 



Report of Nominating Committee 12 



Legislative Committee: 



Report on Hi^h School Leaflets 12 



Report on Applied Science in High Schools 13 



Report on Calendar Reform 15 



Report on Ecological Survey 18 



President's Address: An Italian Academician. Professor 



Henry Crew 24 



Symposium: The Science of Sanitation: 



I. VThy Should Births and Deaths be Registered in Illi- 

 nois, Dr. Fredrick R. Green, Sec'y American Medical 

 Association 34 



II. The Experience of the State of Illinois with the Shal- 

 low Well, Dr. Edward Bartow, State Water Survey 45 



III. The Control of Stream Pollution, Paul Hansen, State 

 Water Survey 51 



IV. Sanitary Aspect of Milk Supplies, Dr. P. G. Heinemann, 

 University of Chicago 60 



