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Professor Taylor: It was prior to 1919 that all the back 

 numbers were ordered, and I hope they are still taking them. 



Mr. Bixby : They are. They get them every two years. 



Professor Taylor: They ought to and if they are not I will 

 see that they do. But I found this difficulty, that there will very 

 shortly be thirteen numbers and if it comes to a question of looking 

 something up, we will find that the average man will not be en- 

 thusiastically interested because he won't know how quickly he can 

 get at just exactly what he wants. Mr. Bixby suggested that ten 

 of these volumes be taken together and indexed as a unit. That is 

 one of the finest things that you can possibly ask for. I think the 

 institutions will buy them in a way that they do not now because 

 then they will not have to look through ten volumes to find a little 

 idea they want. 



I know it is an expensive proposition to index things of that 

 kind; it takes time and a lot of patience. Not only that but it must 

 be done by some one whose heart is in the work and who recognizes 

 the problems that the man who is going to use that index is going 

 to look up. But I do think that if it could be put in to a combined 

 volume, and some sort of an effort made by the various vice presi- 

 dents in the different sections to see the institutions in their own 

 sections who would be interested, that something might be accom- 

 plished which would be of real worth. I believe this would be in- 

 creasingly so in the future, because those people will want to look 

 back ten, fifteen, twenty years, and see what the others went through. 

 One of the biggest things that I think I did in our classes was to 

 point out the problems that occurred in California ten, fifteen, 

 twenty-five and thirty years ago, along the line of nut culture solely, 

 and then point out where the nut growers succeeded. 



And if I may just branch off here to one of the things I haven't 

 spoken about before this evening, I am absolutely against planting 

 seedling trees unless there is a very strong emphasis laid on the 

 fact that they are not for commercial purposes and not for plant- 

 ing in orchards, but are simply and solely for the possibility of de- 

 veloping new varieties. I think that growers are going to want to 

 go back over old reports in order to save covering the same ground 

 twice. We have found our new people in California starting right 

 in where people started fifty years ago because they didn't know 

 what happened fifty years ago, because our reports out there were 

 not properly indexed. 



Mr. Weber : Mr. President, in order to bring the matter to a 

 head, I move that the distribution of the old reports, by sale or 

 otherwise, be left to the discretion of the executive committee. 



(Seconded and carried.) 



Mr. Olcott : Mr. President, I would like to ask what the 

 condition of the treasury is. I do so for this reason, that we have 

 planned out a good deal to be done during the interim, from now 



