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to the Society at its next meeting, any special design for a Certificate of Mem- 

 bership. If I recollect rightly, in the revision of the By-Laws, which we pro- 

 posed last week, no mention was made of the Seal of the Society; I suppose an 

 Article ought to be introduced on this subject, 



Newark, {Del), April 9, 1863, 



I have received your note of yesterday, and think that any omission to num- 

 ber our Plates would produce confusion in referring to them, but I have seen 

 somewhere, though I cannot now recollect where, a plan of introducing a second 

 title, somewhat similar to the enclosed pattern. 



I am glad that you have mentioned the matter of printing the Proceedings, 

 for I intended last week to have a talk with you on that very subject; it is just 

 as important that the Correspondence, Exchanges, <fec. should be promptly at- 

 tended to, as it is to issue our Proceedings punctually; I do not think that we 

 ought to limit our numbers to any certain number of pages, but that we ought 

 to publish all papers that are regularly reported on by the Committees in their 

 proper order and time ; if we postpone any papers, we shall very soon find the 

 autliors sending their papers to Societies who will publish them more promptly. 



I may be wrong, but my impression is that Mr. comes but once a week 



to assist in setting up type and in presswork, and that he does it at consider- 

 able less than the usual rates; the proposition which I intended to make to 



you, was something like the following: — That, if Mr. • has the time to 



spare, so that there shall be no delay in the issue of the numbers, an arrange- 

 ment shall be made with him to set all the type and assist in the press-work 

 at such price as he may be willing to agree to, and I think that if no better 

 can be done, it would be better to give him full prices, for, as he has been on 

 the Publication Committee from the beginning, he will naturally take more 

 pride in preserving its typographical excellence than any other printer would. 



If Mr. has not the time, then, to make arrangements with some one else, 



so that you shall be relieved from type-setting, but I think that in any case 

 you should correct the proofs and take a general supervision of the printing. In 

 order to carry out this plan, it will perhaps be necessary to purchase more type, 

 so that type-setting may not be delayed by any delay in the return of proof- 

 slieets from authors. For all these things I am willing to furnish whatever 

 funds may be necessary; in fact, I do not expect Vol. 2 to pay expenses, but as 

 we approached the end of Vol. 1, I saw that the steadily increasing number of 

 pages and the coloring of Plates, made it necessary to change the price of sub- 

 scription for the 2nd Vol. Our terms for the 2nd Vol. make no promises for 

 the .Srd Vol., and perhaps by the time the 2nd Vol. is completed, the Public will 

 not object to an increase of price for the 3rd Vol., while at the same time I 

 hope we shall be able to preserve the old price for our members. I wish you 

 would think over the above and suggest any other plan or ideas that may oc- 

 cur to you. 



On the cover of the last No. of the Berlin Entomological Magazine, which I 

 left with you, you will see a notice that the price for Members of the Society is 

 $2 jier annum — for the Public S3 per annum. 



I intended last week also to have a talk with Mr. , about the Insect 



Case which he is now making, and the four other cases which will be wanted; 

 I shall be obliged if you will see him, and let me know next week his ideas on 

 the following propositions; (I have paid him $50 in advance on the case now 

 makina;.) 



