188 The American Naturalist. [February, 
There was a large attendance of members and visitors. President J. 
L. Campbell, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Ind., presided. The 
large number of papers entered made imperative the meeting of the 
Academy in three sections in the afternoon of the first day. These 
were so constituted that papers on mathematics, physics, chemistry 
and geology were read in one section; on botany in another; on 
zoology and anthropology in a third. On the evening of the first — 
day the President deliyered his address on The Independence of Lib- 
eral Pursuits. The following officers were elected for the next year: 
President, J. C. Arthur, Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind.; vice 
president, W. A. Noyes, Rose Polytechnic Institute, Terre Haute, Ind., 
secretary, A. W. Butler, Brookville, Ind.; assistant secretary, Stanley 
Coulter, Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind. ; treasurer, ©. A. Waldo 
De Pauw University, Greencastle, Ind. ; auditors, Thomas Gray, Rose — 
Polytechnic Institute, Terre Haute, Ind.; W. S. Blatchley, High 
School, Terre Haute, Ind. L. M. Underwood, De Pauw University, 
Greencastle, Ind.; and W. A. Noyes, Rose Polytechnic Institute, Terre 
Haute, Ind., were appointed program committee. The Academy — 
decided to hold its spring meeting the third week in May in Parks — 
County, Ind., closing with an evening meeting Friday at Terre 
Haute, Ind. 
The following papers were presented: Notes on the Reproduction — 
and Development of Grinnellia americana Harv., M. A. Brannon; — 
tion of High Temperatures, W. A. Noyes; Tests of the Torsional 
Strength of a Steel Shaft, Thos. Gray ; An Extreme Case of Parasit- i 
ism, Robert Hessler; Exhibition and Explanation of a Geologi ay 
Chart, Elwood P. Cubberly; Local Variations, C. H. Eigenmann; 
Botanical Field Work in Western Idaho, D. T. MacDougal; The - 
Quaternion Treatment of the Motion of Two or More Bodies U ae i 
the Law of Gravitation, A. S. Hathaway; The Electrical Oxidation 
of Glycerin, W. E. Stone and H. N. McCoy ; Notes Concerning Testsof 
the Purdue Experimental Locomotive, W.F. M.Goss ; The Electrostati 7 
Theoryof Cohesionand Vander Waal’s Equation, Reginald A. Fessenden 
On Sulphon-pthaleins, Walter Jones’; Quartz Suspensions, Benj. W 
Snow; Observations on Glacial and Pre-glacial Erosion at Richm¢ 
Indiana, Joseph Moore; A Modification of Grandeau’s Method | : 
