The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-28
THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE
Original Investigators and Thinkers
Gather to Exchange Their Ideas.
Preparatory Meeting Of the Executive Com
mittee Last Night-Will Ask for
an Appropriation.

The executive committee of the Indiana
Academy Of Science met last night at the
Bates, to arrange the programme and busl-
ness of the session which begins this morn
ing at 8 o'clock in the agricultural hall of
the Capitol building. The member of the
committee who were present last night
were Permanent Secretary of the Academy
Amos w. Butler. of BrookvilIe; Prof. J.. T..
Arthur. Purdue; Prof. G. A. Waldo, DePauw;
W.. A. Noyes, of Rose Poly rechnic; Prof.
John M. Coulter, State University, and o.
p. Hay. of Chicago. Prof. Stanley Coul-
ter. of the programme committee. Purdue
University, met with the committee.
1t was decided that the academy should
meet this morning in general session for
the forenoon and heor the first sixteen pa
pers, which are OF perhaps more general
interest. The titles and authors Of these
t paPerS are ~ l moussn n 0GIsIapn'Sa 9 D "
Webster; Notes on the Reproduction and
Development of Grinnellia Americana,
Hary.nM. A. Brannon: Evidences of Mans
Early Existence in Indiana, from the Old
River" A. w. Butler; "On the Construction
of a Sensitive Galvanometer," BENJAMIN w.
Snow; Some Facts as to the Vary
ing Conditions of Rock Deposits
Beds of Indiana and an Inquiry
as to the Causeof the Same" Joseph Moore;
"A Simple Air Thermometer for the Deter
mination of High Temperatures" w. A.
Moves; Tests of the Torsional Strength of
q Steel Shaft" Thomas Gray; IAN Extreme
Case of Parasitism." Robert Hessler; Some
Effects of Mutilstion on the Forms of Leaf
and Sex of Morus alba and Morus nigra,"
A. N. Somers; THE Crawford Mound" H.
NJ. Stoops; THE Quaternion Treatment
nf thu Nation nf fun mr. mnRn Rndrao
Under the Law of Grsvitation." A. s.
Hathaway; The Traps of Red Head, N.
B." V. +. Marsters; The Electrical Oxida-
ton of Glycerine.o w. f. Stone and II. n.
Purdue Experimental Locomotive" w. F.
NJ. Goss; Explorations in Western Can
ada" G.. Fl. Eigenmann; Botanical Field
Work in Western ldahO."D. I. MscDougaL
In the afternoon the academy will be di-
vided into throe sectiops-botsny, zoology
and physics and chemistry. At these SEQ.
tional meetings the more technical papers
will be read. the less specific being re-
served for the general sessions. Tonight,
at Z O'Clock, instead of 1.-THE time quoted
on the programme. the president of the
academy. John L. Campbell. Of Wabash
College, will read his annual address. the
subJect OF which 10 not as yet announced.
The members of the academy desire public
attendance on all their meetings. The re-
port of Treasurer G. A. Waldo last night
showed q balance in the treasury of S94. 10.
Secretary Butler, announced that strange
ments were being made to ask the next
Legislature to appropriate the academy q
sum of money sufficient for tho publication
of the proceedings of it's sessions in good
style. and with plates illustrative of GER
tain features. A committee had been ap-
pointed to meet a legislative committee
and confer with them in regard to the mat
ter. The executive committee decided to
ask the Assembly for g.. 500 q year. that q
~e-hundred page volume might be print
ed and distributed among the several
high-school superintendents of the State
and to various others whose functions de-
served the result OF the academy's ipyestI.
cations from year to year. The first volume
of the kind ever printed. containing the
proceedings of 1891. printed at Rockville,
has two hundred pages, and was edited by
y. p. Hay, c. A. Waldo and j. M. Coulter.
Among the active members OF the acad.
were Phillip s. Baker, J. r. ID.
John and w. w. Norman, Greencastle:
Willis S. Blalchley. Thomas Gray. j.. 4.
Scovell, Terre Haute; NJ. A. Brannon. Fort
Wayne; j. l.. Campbell and Mason b..
Thomas. CrawforGsville; Carl II. Eigen-
mann. Vernon f.. Marsters and David M.
Mottier, Bloomington: Winthrop Z. Stone,
d. r. McDougal, Katharine +. Golden,
Lafayette. and E. NJ. Fisher. Urmeyville.