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labeled "Vol. XX, Part I." The next year we had "Vol. XX, 

 Part II," and two years ago "Vol. XXI, Part I." 



On consultation with the publication committee it seemed 

 best to abandon the biennial volume theory and to name the 

 current number volume XXII. The precedent of an annual 

 volume is pretty well established now and the State Printing 

 Board has been very generous and liberal with the Academy. 



Copy for the current volume was in the printer's hands 

 about the 1st of March, but this being legislative year, there 

 was such demand for printing that the plant was wholly un- 

 able to finish our job till November, when volume XXII was 

 at once sent to all our members. The laws of the state and 

 reports for the great departments must necessarily take 

 precedence over our volume, and your secretary besieged the 

 printing office, in endeavor to hurry up, quite as much as was 

 consistent with good taste and prudence. 



It should be remembered that we have no legal rights to de- 

 mand in this matter, and our requisitions are wholly in the 

 hands of the secretary of state, the attorney-general and the 

 state printer, who are the Printing Board of the Executive 

 Council. Fortunately our relations with these officers have 

 been most pleasant, and they have done for the Academy 

 quite as much as was to be expected. 



Another want of our members is to secure "separates" of 

 papers that are published, and as most scientific periodicals 

 reward the writers of accepted articles with "separates," it 

 is not generally known why we cannot have them from the 

 state printer, even when we stand ready to pay the expense. 

 The answer is found in a state law which forbids the printer 

 to do custom work and requires a separate requisition for 

 each job. Under the old law, when the state printer was best 

 paid of all the state officers, we could and often did secure 

 separates by payment of a small fee, but this is no longer 

 possible, and if we want separates now we must get them at a 

 job office. To partly meet the demand, we had this year 200 

 copies of the Transactions left unstitched. This enabled us 

 to have 200 lists of members and secretary's minutes to bind 

 in with the preliminary announcement of this meeting, which 

 all members should have received. It also gave the same num- 

 ber of the memorial papers in honor of Doctor Snow, and of 

 the retiring president's address. Besides these we could se- 



