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cure from 100 to 200 copies of most other papers, which 

 would sometimes have part of a page of some other paper in- 

 cluded. If these separates were taken to a job office and 

 bound as pamphlets the cost would be from one to four dollars 

 for each paper, and while some are thus disposed of, a good 

 many papers remain in my office awaiting instructions from 

 their authors. 



It should be remembered that plates for cuts and maps in 

 our Transactions are not furnished by the state printer and 

 have to be paid for out of the contingent fund allowed to this 

 department. Our bill this year from the Capper Engraving 

 Company amounted to $105, which leaves less than $200 for 

 telephone, postage, express and office expenses. The expense 

 of postage or express on each volume this year is sixteen 

 cents, and it requires careful administration to keep our ex- 

 penses within the fund. 



Our current volume is so large that it seemed necessary, in 

 order to carry out our stipulation with the state printer, to 

 omit some pages that have been repeated substantially from 

 year to year till they have become monotonous. These are the 

 "Historical Sketch," the "Constitution" and "By-laws," and 

 the lists of domestic and foreign exchanges. While this mat- 

 ter is important, it seemed to the publication committee suffi- 

 cient that it appear at intervals of two or three years, and 

 then perhaps in a separate pamphlet. It is quite possible that 

 this year, judging from the papers now submitted, there may 

 be room for the above appendices. In the announcement all 

 members can find the secretary's minutes of the Topeka meet- 

 ing, and it is unnecessary to call further attention to them. 



THE LIBRARY. 



The growth of our library has been largely through gov- 

 ernment publications at Washington, and through exchanges 

 with various scientific bodies of America and foreign coun- 

 tries. 



Our exchange list remains about as it has been and could 

 easily be enlarged. These exchanges, coming to us, for the 

 most part, unbound, require binding before being usable and 

 placing on our shelves, and we have now about 500 volumes 

 thus awaiting binding, and many of them are of great value. 

 We receive large numbers of memoirs and bulletins from the 

 Imperial Academy at St. Petersburg, and the yearbooks and 



