Excerpt from The Journal of the an Alabama Academy of Science, Vol. 26: December, 1954 The 1954 annual meeting of the Alabama Academy of Science, preceded by a meeting of the Executive Committee at the Jefferson Davis Hotel in Montgomery on October 31, 1953, was held at Huntingdon College in Mont gomery on April 2-3. The Executive Committee met at the Montgomery Coun try Club Thursday evening, April 1; whereas, the general sessions and meet ings of the several sections on Friday and Saturday were held on the Hunting don College campus. The annual banquet held at the Montgomery Country Club on Friday evening was featured by the presidential address given by Dr. Joseph F. Volker, Dean of the University of Alabama School of Dentistry. The Alabama Junior Academy of Science held its annual meeting on the Huntingdon College campus at the same time as the Senior Academy meetings, that is, April 2-3. Their banquet was held at the First Methodist Church in Montgomery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.