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inhs-286	Forbes, Stephen	The Biological Survey of a River System--- Its Objects, Methods and Results	1928	10	.pdf	application/pdf	4210	110	49	This proposal being imanimously apjiroved bv our board of control, it thus became the j)ermanent charter of our aquatic operations in Illinois, and in accordance with it we transferred our principal activities as a new- project to the Rock River system, to which area I have now to ask yoiu' attention. Rock River, which enters Illinois from Wisconsin somewhat east of the middle point of the common Ijoundary and swings thence in a fairly even curve to the south and west to em])tv into the Mississip])i at Rock Island, is one of the most beautiful, interesting, and popular streams in Illinois, quite unlike any other important river in the state, excepting [jerha])s the Fox, which flows through a similar territory.	cache/inhs-286.pdf	txt/inhs-286.txt