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ent and responded by letters or telegrams: Dean 

 C. H. Eigenmann, Bloomington, Indiana Academy 

 of Science; Dr. J. B. Shaw, tJrbana, Mathematics 

 Club, University of Illinois. 



In addition to the greetings brought by these 

 delegates, the American Academy of Arts and Sci- 

 ences, the California Academy of Sciences and the 

 Ohio Academy of Sciences presented their felicita- 

 tions by letter regretting that these could not be 

 offered personally. 



Dean Eigenmann 's message was in the form of 

 an eight-page telegram in which he reported a 

 dream which he had lately experienced. He 

 dreamed that he and his neighbor, Billy Sunday, 

 had died and presented their credentials to his 

 Satanic Majesty at the same time. It appeared 

 that Billy's credentials were not good for perma- 

 nent admission to the place, but he was allowed to 

 look ia and was greatly amazed to find that the 

 numerous men of science whom he had condemned 

 to the place were all there and having a thoroughly 

 good time. They were carrying on all kinds of 

 scientific experiments for which the high tempera- 

 ture was especially suitable, and had so improved 

 the place that BUly longed for permission to re- 

 main. 



This program lasted until a late hour, and Presi- 

 dent WiUiam Trelease was compelled to forego the 

 reading of the presidential address which he had 

 prepared on the suggestive title : The Producer, the 

 Distributer and the Consumer. 



The program for Saturday morning consisted of 

 a symposium on the topic Public Health Prob- 

 lems. The following were the speakers and topics 

 of this program: 



Opening of the Symposium, by Dr. J. H. Beard. 



"Infant Mortality as a Public Health Prob- 

 lem, ' ' by Miss Emma Duke. 



"The Control of Infectious Disease," by Dr. 

 C. W. East. 



' ' Eural Sanitation, ' ' by Surgeon M. J. White. 



"Relation of Water Supplies and Sewage Dis- 

 posal to Public Health, ' ' by Mr. Paul Hansen. 



"Cancer, as a Public Health Problem," by Dr. 

 J. P. Percy. 



The symposium was followed by a special lec- 

 ture, complimentary to the people of Galesburg, on 

 the topic "Earth Genesis," by Dr. T. C. Cham- 

 berlin, of Chicago University. 



On Saturday afternoon, the academy was di- 

 vided into three sections for the presentation of 

 papers as follows: 



SECTION I 



Papers on Botany and Allied Subjects 



"The Chestnut in Illinois," by William Tie- 

 lease. 



"Dwarf Shore Ploras, " by H. Walton Clark. 



"The Primrose Eocks of Illinois," by H. S. 

 Pepoon (lantern). 



"A Dipterocarp Forest," by Prank C. Gates. 



"Elementary Teaching of Stem Structure," by 

 Henry S. Conard. 



"A Contribution of Knowledge of Porto Rican 

 Fungi," by F. L. Stevens. 



" Phyllachora on Corn and a General Considera- 

 tion of the Genus Phyllachora," by Nora E. 

 Dalbey. 



"Alternaria in Apple Spots, an Apple Rot 

 caused by Gliocladium viride," by Frances Jean 

 Maclnnes. 



"Notes on Cephaleuros Virescens," by Ruth 

 Higley. 



"New or Noteworthy Fungi from Porto Rico," 

 by Ernest M. R. Lamkey. 



"Two Porto Eican Plant Diseases," by L. E. 

 MUes. 



SECTION n 



Papers on Zoology, Physiology and Allied Subjects 



"Selection, Regression and Parent-Progeny Cor- 

 relation in Aphis avenae Fab.," by H. E. Ewing. 



"Collecting Snails in the Southwest," by James 

 H. Ferriss. 



' ' Amphibians and Reptiles of the Charleston Re- 

 gion," by T. L. Hankinson. 



"Crane Town on the Spoon," by Dr. W. S. 

 Strode. 



"Mechanism regulating the Laying on and Loss 

 of Flesh." 



' ' The Cause of Exophthalmic Goiter, " by W. E. 

 Burge. 



"The Effect of Starvation on the Catalase Con- 

 tent of Tissues, ' ' by Alma J. NeUl. 



"Recent Research in the Department of House- 

 hold Science, University of lUiuois," by Euth 

 Wheeler. 



' ' The Content of a General Science Course, ' ' by 

 J. F. Groves. 



SECTION III 



Papers on Physics, Chemistry, Geology and Allied 

 Siibjects 



' ' The Origin of Desert Depression, ' ' by WiUiam 

 Herbert Hobbs. 



"The Thebes Sandstone and Orchard Creek 

 Shale, and their Faunas, "by T. E. Savage. 



