10 ILLINOIS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE 



Summary. 



Total Receipts $377.62 



Total Expenditures 288.80 



Balance on hand, Feb. 21. 1913 $ 88.82 



After examination of the Treasurer's books by the audit- 

 ing Committee, consisting of C. E. Comstock, John ]\I. Rob- 

 erts, and George D. Fuller, the report was accepted as read. 



Mr. W. L. Eikenberry, acting chairman of the Member- 

 ship Committee, presented a list of forty-six names of those 

 recommended by the committee for membership in the Acad- 

 emy. Upon motion, the report was unanimously adopted. 



The president's address, entitled. ''An Italian Academi- 

 cian" was then delivered by President Crew. Next came the 

 symposium on, "The Science of Sanitation," which was pre- 

 sented m the following order: 



1. Birth and Death Registration. — Frederick R. Green, 

 American ^Medical Association, Chicago. 



2. The Influence of Shallow Wells on Health. — Edward 

 Bartow, Director Illinois Water Surxey, Url)ana. 



3. The Control of Stream Pollution. — Paul Hansen, Illi- 

 nois Water Survey, Urbana. 



4. Sanitary Aspect of the Milk Supply. — P. G. Heine- 

 mann.' Department of Bacteriology, University of Chicago. 



5. Housing in Relation to Health. — Clarion Talbot, 

 Dean of Women, University of Chicago. 



Time remained f(tr the l^eginuing of the program of "indi- 

 vidual papers," and Dr. W. ^^^ At wood presented two papers. 

 "Chicago Academy of Science — An Educational Force in the 

 Community," and "A Celectial Sphere." 



Sixty memljers of the Academy attended the banquet 

 served in the dining hall of Bradley Institute at 6 P. M. The 

 after-dinner talks were particularly pleasing and profitable. 

 Each speaker gave a brief review of the most important dis- 

 coveries made in his particular field of science during the 

 previous year. If the purpose of the Academy is in part at 

 least to give better distribution to scientific discoveries, and 

 to extend the spirit of science this after dinner program was 

 a decided success. Following is the list of speakers : 



Botany, John M. Coulter, University of Chicago. 



Zoology, Henry B. W'ard. University of Illinois. 



Entomology. Stephen A. Forbes. University of Illinois. 



Geology, ^^'illianl S. Bayley, University of Illinois. 



Physiological Chemistry, E. AV. Washburn, University of 

 Illinois. 



