IOWA ACADEMY OP SCIENCES. 
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thoug-ht better to place the books received in the regular collections of the 
state library. It is proposed to continue the exchange of back sets 
wherever it can be done to advantage; and for this purpose, as well as to 
provide for exchanges already made, it is recommended that the academy 
purchase at least fifteen copies of part one of the proceedings. 
Several copies of the back numbers of the academy have been sold and 
the money forwarded to the treasurer. It is recommended that some more 
systematic rules regarding the distribution and sale of the proceedings 
be adopted. Respectfully, 
H. Foster Bain, 
Librarian. 
Professor Hendrixson, for the library committee, made a 
statement of the work of the committee with reference to sci- 
entific books for the state library and the valuable additions 
that had been made as a result. 
The following motion was adopted that a vote of thanks be 
tendered the librarian and board of trustees of the state library 
for their courtesies in hearing the requests of the academy and 
the purchases of scientific works. 
A motion that a committee of three be appointed by the 
chair to petition the legislature regarding the preservation of 
forest and lake areas of Iowa and to present a memorial to con- 
gress through Senator Gear, regarding forest preservation. 
The committee appointed consists of Professors Macbride, 
Pammel and Pink. The following was adopted: 
Des Moines, Iowa, January 2, 1896. 
The Iowa Academy of Sciences, in regular session assembled, begs leave 
to call the attention of the Twenty-sixth General Assembly of the State of 
Iowa to the preservation and protection of our lakes in order to maintain 
some of the original conditions of the state. They should be made pleasure 
resorts where our citizens may spend a few days for recreation, and where 
possible the borders of the lakes should be planted with forest trees. These 
lakes contain large numbers of fish which alone would pay for their mainte- 
nance. They are frequented by many birds which, without them, will be 
driven from our state. 
Your honorable body can leave no richer legacy to future generations 
than the lakes that dot the northern part of our state surrounded with 
timber. We earnestly hope the Twenty- sixth General Assembly will pass 
some measure to preserve them. 
(Signed) T. H. Macdride. 
L. H. Pammel. 
B. Pink. 
Des Moines, Iowa, January 2, 1896. 
The Iowa Academy of Sciences, in regular session assembled, begs leave 
to call the attention of the United States congress to the absolute necessity 
of further legislation looking to the preservation and rational use of the 
remaining forest resources of our country. The academy petitions for 
