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Chicago 118 



Urbana 114 



Springfield 30 



Evanston 12 



Decatur 10 



Scattered 122 



The above condition is a very gratifying result 

 of the four years of the academy's efforts, but it 

 IS fuUy realized that it falls far short of the ideal 

 toward which the state academy is aiming. There 

 is no apparent reason why the Illinois State 

 Academy of Science should not, in a few years, 

 have an enrolment of a thousand members and 

 wield an influence for good which will be felt not 

 only by the educational institutions and the citi- 

 zens of our great commonwealth, but also by our 

 sister states whose state academies preceded ours 

 by several decades. 



The following officers were elected for the 

 ensuing year: 



President — W. A. Noyes, Illinois State Uni- 

 versity, Urbana, Ills. 



Vice-president — J. C. Udden, Augustana Col- 

 lege, Eoek Island, Ills. 



Secretary — Frank C. Baker, The Chicago Acad- 

 emy of Sciences, Chicago. 



Treasurer — J. C. Hessler, James Millikin Uni- 

 versity, Decatur, His. 



The following committees were appointed or 

 continued : 



Membership Committee — H. C. Co wles, Chicago ; 

 Marion Weller, De Kalb; E. N. Transeau, Charles- 

 ton; C. C. Adams, Urbana; J. W. Bead, Jackson- 

 ville. 



Committee to Investigate the Status of Sigh 

 Schools as to Practical Science — ^WorraUo Whit- 

 ney, Otis W. CaldweU, J. P. GHbert, J. C. Hessler, 

 J. T. Johnson. 



Committee to Arrange for the Editorship and 

 the Pullication of a Series to le known as the 

 State Academy Leaflets on High School Science — 

 T. J. McCormack, William C. Bagley, J. G. Coul- 

 ter, E. D. Salisbury, H. S. Pepoon. 



Publication Committee — The president, the 

 secretary and A. K. Crook. 



Committee on Ecological Survey — Stephen A. 

 Forbes, V. E. Shelford, Frank C. Baker, Charles 

 C. Adams, H. A. Gleason. 



Committee to Influence Legislation to Bestrict 

 the Collection of Birds and Eggs to Institutions 

 and Accredited Individuals — F. C. Baker, I. E. 

 Hess and F. L. Charles. 



Committee to Cooperate with Existing Agencies 

 for Advancement of Nature Study in Elementary 

 Schools — ^F. L. Charles, Ira Meyers and Kuth Mar- 

 shall. 



The program was as follows (the papers and 

 addresses will be published in Volume IV. of the 

 Transactions) . 



FRIDAY, 10:00 A.M. — Botany Building 



Address of Welcome, Dean E. D. Salisbury. 



"Charles E. Barnes: In Memoriam, " John M. 

 Coulter. 



"Frank G. Barnes: In Memoriam," E. 0. Gra- 

 ham. 



"J. A. West," S. A. Forbes. 



"J. C. Stine: In Memoriam," Frank Smith. 



"The Postglacial Life of Wilmette Bay" (lan- 

 tern), Frank C. Baker. 



" Description of Mine Eeseue Stations" (lantern), 

 H. H. Stoek. 



FRIDAY, 2:00 P.M. — Botany Building 

 "MoUusca of Piatt, Vermillion and Champaign 



Counties" (lantern), James Zetek. 

 "Oil Investigation in lUinois" (lantern), E. S. 



Blatchley. 

 ' ' Seasonal Succession in Old Forest Ponds ' ' (lan- 

 tern), W. C. AUee. 

 "Demonstration of Movement of Water in 



Leaves" (lantern), A. H. Cole. 

 "The Chinese Mantis in Southern lUinois, " C. A. 



Hart. 

 "Eastward Extension of Certain Shales as Shown 



by Deep Wells, " J. A. Udden. 

 "Present Status of Illinois State Museum," A. 



E. Crook. 

 "Demonstration of the Use of Oxygen in Mine 



Eeseue Work, " J. M. Webb. 

 "Metallic Colors in Birds and Insects" (lantern), 



A. A. Michelson. 



FRIDAY, 8:00 P.M. — Mandel Sail 

 Presidential address, "The Problems of Plant 

 Breeding, ' ' John M. Coulter. 



SATURDAY, 9:00 A.M. — Mandel Sail 

 Symposium on Eadio- Activity: "Eadio- Activity 

 and Geological Phenomena," T. C. Chamberlin, 

 University of Chicago; "Some of the Physical 

 Properties of Eadium, ' ' Henry Crew, North- 

 western University ; ' ' Eadiimi in Relation to 

 Celestial Bodies," E. B. Frost, Yerkes Observa- 

 tory; "Eadio-Chemistry," W. A. Noyes, Univer- 

 sity of Illinois; "The Biological Effects of 

 Eadium," W. A. Pusey, University of Illinois. 



