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It is in some sense a laboratory where students are stimulated to work, 

 the work in many eases counting as credits on university work. Again 

 these reports are printed, and so this work becomes accessible to many 

 outside the members of the Academy. Again, the Academy has established 

 an extensive system of exchanges of publications with other societies, so 

 that a large number of valuable publications are accumulated in the State 

 Library to the credit of the Academy. 



Various sanitary problems have been discussed and some phases of 

 bacteriology and some economic questions have been considered : as to the 

 supply of coal, of building stones and of materials for all kinds of articles 

 made of clay or shale. 



The list of presidents contains the names of many noted men who have 

 done good work in the Academy. And the list of members is large, showing 

 that hundreds of people have been inspired and stimulated by association 

 with these prominent educators. A large proportion of the members of the 

 Academy are teachers, and through them thousands of young people in In- 

 diana have been benefited and encouraged by the work of the Academy. 



The Indiana Academy of Science has been a success. It has accom- 

 plished in a large way all that its founders hoped for. May it continue to 

 prosper. 



