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of the academy was held, as the members were 

 invited to attend the dedication of the new 

 science building- at the State Normal College 

 at Ypsilanti, Mich. Friday forenoon was de- 

 voted to the reading of papers in the various 

 sections. In the afternoon the academy con- 

 vened in general session and the retiring 

 president, Professor F. C. Newcombe, of the 

 University of Michigan, delivered the presi- 

 dential address, taking as his subject ' The 

 Manner and Means of a Natural History Sur- 

 vey of Michigan.' This address will be pub- 

 lished in full in the annual report of the 

 academy. The subject is one to which the 

 academy is devoting much attention, and it 

 is hoped that at the nest session of the state 

 legislature a law will be passed authorizing 

 a natural history survey for Michigan, sim- 

 ilar to those already established in other 

 states. Following the presidential address 

 the remainder of the Friday afternoon ses- 

 sion was devoted to a discussion of the ' For- 

 estry Interests of Michigan,' with the follow- 

 ing program: 



Charles W. Garfield, president State For- 

 estry Commission, Grand Eapids : ' The State's 

 Work in Forestry.' 



John Bissel, Detroit : ' Forestry of Michigan 

 from a Business Man's Standpoint.' 



FiLiBERT Roth, University of Michigan, Ann 

 Arbor : ' The Next Step in Forestry in Michigan.' 



J. W. Clark, of the U. S. Bureau of Forestry, 

 Washington, D. C: 'The Work of the Bureau 

 of Forestry in Michigan.' 



W. J. Beal, Agricultural College : ' Lantern 

 Views of Seedlings and Young Forest Trees.' 



E. E. BoGUE, Agricultural College : ' Forestry 

 Plantations in Michigan.' 



C. A. Davis, University of Michigan, Ann 

 Arbor : ' Condition of the Wood Lot in jMichigan.' 



On Friday evening Professor John M. 

 Coulter, of the University of Chicago, de- 

 livered the annual address in Sarah Caswell 

 Angell Hall. The subject was ' A Neglected 

 Naturalist,' and under this title a most inter- 

 esting account of the life and work of Rafin- 

 esque was given. Immediately following 

 Professor Coulter's address the visiting mem- 

 bers of the academy were the guests of the 

 Eesearch Club of the University of Michigan 

 at an informal reception and smoker. 



On Saturday morning a general session was 

 devoted to a discussion of the ' Fish and Game 

 Interests of Michigan.' The following papers 

 were presented at this time: 



F. N. Clark, Supt. of U. S. Fish Hatchery, 

 Northville : ' Commercial Fish and Fisheries.' 



Charles E. Brewster, Chief Deputy, Depart- 

 ment of Game and Fish Warden, Sault Ste. 

 Marie : ' The Commercial Fishes of the Great 

 Lakes.' 



F. B. Dickerson, of the Michigan Fish Com- 

 mission, Detroit : ' The Benefit to the State of the 

 Artificial Propagation of Game Fish.' 



C. H. Chapman, State Game Warden : ' Game 

 Animals.' 



L. Whitney Watkins, of the Agriculture Col- 

 lege Board, Manchester: 'Game Birds.' (By 

 title.) 



In the meetings of the various sections of 

 the academy the following papers were read: 



section of botany. 



G. P. Burns, Ann Arbor : ' Ecological Survey 

 of the Huron River Valley, IV., Dead Lake.' 



Miss Liira Warner, Ann Arbor : ' Regeneration 

 of Root Tips after Splitting.' 



Miss Mary E. Hedden, Ann Arbor: ' Conditions 

 Influencing Regeneration of the Hypoeotyl in 

 Linum usita-tissimutn.' 



Miss Annabel W. Clark, Ann Arbor : ' Re- 

 generation of the Epicotyl in Seedlings of Yicia 

 Faha and Pisum sativum.' 



Miss Julia A. Haynes, Ann Arbor : ' Angle of 

 Deviation at which Stems Show the Strongest 

 Response.' 



W. N. Fuller, Ann Arbor : ' Statocyst Function 

 of Starch Grains in the Root Tip.' (By title.) 



A. W. PiERSON, Ann Arbor: 'The Occurrence 

 of Basisporium Oallarum Molliard in Michigan.' 



C. A. Davis, Ann Arbor : ' The Rough Barked 

 and Smooth Barked White Oaks.' 



F. H. LoEW, Agricultural College : ' Importance 

 of Plant Variation and Its Bearing on the Evo- 

 lution of Species.' 



S. Alexander, Detroit : ' Some Interesting 

 Michigan Plants, Possibly Some New Species.' 



W. J. Beal, Agricultural College : ' A New Edi- 

 tion of the Michigan Flora.' 



J. B. Dandeno, Agricultural College: 'The Re- 

 lation of Mass Action and Physical Afiinity to 

 Toxicity of Solution.' 



E. E. BoGUE, Agricultural College : ' Educa- 

 tional Requirements for the Profession of Fores- 

 try.' (By title.) 



