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publication of its transactions. A bill providing 

 one thousand dollars a . year is now pending be- 

 fore the legslature, this item having been included 

 in the budget submitted to the legislature by the 

 governor. 



The following is the program of papers and ad- 

 dresses presented at the meeting 



PAPERS OP GENERAL INTEREST 



Dr. H. 8. Pepoon, Lake View High School, Chi- 

 cago, "A proposed state park." 



Dr. Chas. F. Millspaugh, Field Museum, Chicago, 

 ' ' Botany in a public museum. ' ' 



Dr. Prank C. Baker, University of Illinois, ' ' The 

 Museum of Natural History of the University of 

 Illinois. ' ' 



J. L. Pricer, State Normal University, "Current 

 tendencies in science education in the secondary 

 schools. ' ' 



William A. Dunkley, Geological Survey Division, 

 "The use of central district coals in water-gas 

 manufacture. ' ' 



Gilbert H. Cady, Geological Survey Division, 

 ' ' The Illinois pyrite inventory. ' ' 



Mr. P. E. Kempton, University of Illinois, ' ' The 

 Barberry Eradication Campaign." 



REPORTS ON THE FORESTRY SDEVET OP ILLINOIS 



Professor S. A. Forbes, State Laboratory of 

 Natural History, "General plans and purposes of 

 the survey." 



Professor "W. S. Waterman, Northwestern Uni- 

 versity; Professor H. 0. Cowles, University of Chi- 

 cago; Miss Hazel SehmoU, University of Chicago, 

 ' ' The survey of Cook County. ' ' 



Dr. H. S. Pepoon, Lake View High School, Chi- 

 cago, "Jo Daviess Comity." 



Dr. George D. Puller, University of Chicago, 

 "La Salle County." 



Mr. O. D. Prank, Quincy High School, "Adams 

 County. ' ' 



Dr. W. B. McDougal, University of Illinois, 

 ' ' Vermilion County. ' ' 



Dr. Arthur G. Vestal, Eastern State Normal 

 School, Charleston, "Cumberland County." 



Symposium on Science and Beconstruction: 

 The eifects of the war on science and the oppor- 

 tunities and responsibilities of science under the 

 new order of things. 



Dr. Roger Adams, University of Illinois, ' ' Chem- 

 istry. ' ' 



P. W. De Wolf, Chief of Division of Geological 

 Survey, "Geology." 



Professor John M. Coulter, University of Chi- 

 cago, "Botany." 



Professor Henry B. Ward, University of Illinois, 

 "Zoology." 



Dr. C. St. Clair Drake, Chief of Department of 

 Public Health, "Medicine and public health." 



Dean Eugene Davenport, College of Agrieiilture, 

 University of Illinois, "Agriculture and food pro- 

 duction. ' ' 



PAPERS ON BOTANY 



Professor William Trelease, University of Illi- 

 nois, "The scarlet oak of northern Illinois." 



Professor Henry C. Oowles, University of Chi- 

 cago, "Some floristic and ecological features of 

 the woodlands of Cook County." 



C. Z. Nelson, Galesburg, "Studies in the North 

 American Opwitia. ' ' 



Dr. Geo. D. Puller, University of Chicago, "Soil 

 as a limiting factor of forests in La SaUe County, 

 Illinois." 



Dr. W. B. McDougal, University of Illinois, 

 ' ' Some mushrooms which are rare or have not 

 previously been reported from Illinois. ' ' 



Clarence Bonnell, Harrisburg Township High 

 School, "The occurrence of a white form of 

 Tradescantia virginica. ' ' 



PAPERS ON ZOOLOGY 



Dr. Prank C. Baker, University of Illinois, "A 

 mussel survey of the upper waters of the VennUion 

 River, with special reference to Salt Pork." 



Professor T. L. Hankinson, Eastern State Nor- 

 mal School, Charleston, ' ' Life history notes on Illi- 

 nois fish." 



Dr. H. J. Van Cleave, University of Illinois, 

 ' ' Preliminary survey of the Acanithocephala from 

 fishes of the Illinois River. ' ' 



Theodore H. Prison, University of Illinois, 

 "Keys for the separation of the Bremidae, or 

 bumblebees of Illinois, and other notes. ' ' 



Miss Marion J. Miller, Illinois College, "Ob- 

 servation of the Kentucky Cardinal." 



Anne Wakely Jackson, Illinois College, "Bird 

 songs. ' ' 



A special illustrated address on Porto Rico was 

 given by Dr. R. D. Salisbury, president of the 

 academy, and one by Dr. Josephine Milligan, of 

 Jacksonville, on the work of the Red Cross among 

 the civilian population of Prance. 



The officers elected for the ensuing year are the 

 following: President — ^Dr. Henry B. Ward, of the 

 University of Illinois; Vice-president — ^Dr. Geo. D. 

 Puller, of the University of Chicago; Secretary — 

 J. L. Pricer, of the State Normal University, Nor- 

 mal; Treasurer — Dr. W. G. Waterman, of the 

 Northwestern University. 



J. L. Pricee, 

 Secretary 



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