IOWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 
XVII 
The committee on secretary’s report submitted the fol- 
lowing recommendations concerning reprints, papers, etc., 
which were adopted: 
1. That the secretary make the same arrangement as was made last 
year with regard to separates of papers, but that he be endowed with 
discretionary powers, after conferring with the executive committee. 
2. That all papers for publication in the Proceedings should be submitted 
to the secretary within two weeks after the date of the annual meeting. 
3. That all lists or purely catalogue papers should be printed in double 
column form. 
4. That the Academy pay the secretary an honorarium of twenty-five 
dollars for the ensuing year. 
L. H. Pammel, 
L. S. Ross, 
Frank F. Almy. 
Committee. 
The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: 
President — M. F. Arey. 
First Vice-President— 'i. L. Tilton. 
Second Vice-President — C. O. Bates. 
Secretary — T. E. Savage. 
Treasurer — H. E. Summers. 
Elective Members of the Executive Committee — L, S. Ross; C. L. von Ende; 
R. B. Wylie. 
The committee on pure food legislation was continued. 
Prof. L. G. Michael was made a member of the committee 
to fill the vacancy made by the removal of Prof. J. B. 
Weems from the state. The committee was authorized to 
elect its own chairman. 
At the literary sessions the following papers were 
presented: 
Presidential address, ‘‘Botany and Intelligent Citizenship.” — B. Shimek. 
“TheU. S. S. Albatross and its Work.”— C. C. Nutting. (Illustrated with 
lantern slides taken by the author.) 
‘ ‘Apparatus for Plating Out Petri Dishes in the Field.”— L. S. Ross. 
‘ ‘Notes on American Cladonias.” — Bruce Fink. 
‘ ‘Some Notes on the Flora of the Bitter Root Mountains of Montana.” — 
Lf. H. Pammel. 
“An Ecological Study of the Sabine and Neches Valleys, Texas.” — 
James E. Gow. 
(a) ‘ ‘Action of Bromic Acid on Metal. ” (b) ‘ ' Determination of Bromic 
and Hydriodic Acids.” — W. S. Hendrixson. 
“A Study of a Thermophilic Bacterium.”— R. E. Buchanan. 
“J. J. Thomson’s Theory of Matter.” — L. Begeman. 
