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“4. That it is possible to obtain a class of durable paper for scientific 
illustrations and maps that can be satisfactorily folded in an octavo 
volume. 
“5. That by the use of thinner and cheaper paper, suitable for such a 
royal octavo form as is now proposed, the cost of the publications of the 
Royal Society will be lessened, and more opportunity given for the print- 
ing of papers which, if the present and expensive form is continued, must 
be necessarily held over from year to year. 
“6, That, in short, economy, convenience and publicity will be the 
direct results of the proposed change. 
“In previous years the printing committee have called attention to 
the numerous corrections, alterations and additions that have been made 
by authors to the proofs of their papers, and the consequent increase of 
the cost of printing the Transactions. Since the establishment of the 
society at least three thousand dollars have been added in this way to the 
aggregate of expenses. Itis a rule that authors should bear a propor- 
tion of such expenses, and were it possible to collect the amount now 
due to the society in this way, its expenses would be considerably dimin- 
ished. In drawing attention again to the matter, the printing committee 
wish to point out the absolute necessity there exists for type-written, or 
at all events legibly written, manuscript in all cases. The Smithsonian 
Institution and National Museum at Washington, after years of trouble 
and expense from the same cause—and it is well to remember they are 
well supplied with funds,—have been forced to require authors, as far as 
practicable, to submit manuscripts in type-written form revised by them- 
selves, and in some cases, adds Mr. A. Howard Clark in a letter to the 
honorary secretary, ‘we have returned the manuscript to be more care- 
fully prepared for the printer.’ The printing committee must adopt a 
similar rule for the future. 
“ At the present time there are awaiting publication several essays so: 
illegibly and carelessly written that it is only possible to print them at a 
large cost, which the society cannot well afford. The printing commit- 
tee also call attention to the rule, which will be rigidly adhered to in the 
future, that all manuscript must be sent to the honorary secretary and 
editor, Dr. Bourinot, by the 1st of August at latest. These rules are 
clearly in the interest of the authors and society at large. 
“The accounts for printing will be audited, as in past years, by the 
accountant of the government printing bureau. All the illustrations 
have been in charge of the queen’s printer, who has made contracts with 
those engravers who can best perform the work with economy and effi- 
ciency. Consequently this expensive portion of the Transactions has been 
at less rates than in previous years.” 
