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Minutes of the Thirty-First Annual Meeting 



INDIANA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE, 



Claypool Hotel, Indianapolis, Ind., 

 December 3, 1915 



The executive committee of the Indiana Academy of Science met in the 

 Moorish Room of the Claypool Hotel and was called to order by the President, 

 W. A. Cogshall. The following members were present: W. A. Cogshall, 

 W. A. McBeth, A. W. Butler, Glenn Culbertson, Stanley Coulter, A. L. 

 Foley, Severance Burrage, R. W. McBride, Will Scott, F. B. Wade, W. M. 

 Blanchard, C. R. Dryer, J. S. Wright and A. J. Bigney. The minutes of the 

 executive committee meeting of 1914 were read and approved. 



The President called for reports from the standing committees : 



Program — Will Scott, chairman, reported work performed as indicated by 

 printed program. 



On motion, $100 was appropriated for the services and traveling ex- 

 penses of Dr. C. B. Davenport of Cold Spring Harbor, New York, the princi- 

 pal speaker at the evening session. 



Treasurer — W. M. Blanchard reported as follows: 



Received from Treasurer of 1914 $241.02 



Collected— 1915 225.00 



Total $466.02 



Expenditures— 1915 139.02 



Balance 327.00 



$466.02 



State Library — A. W. Butler reporting — Some progress had been made 

 toward binding exchanges. Two hundred fifty copies of the Proceedings 

 go to Libraries. Many copies had to be returned. On motion, the committee 

 was ordered to go over the list of applications for Proceedings so as to ascer- 



