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setween 1914 and 1930 the number of persons entitled to the 
privilege of publishing in American Journal of Botany, through 
membership in the Society, increased nearly four times (from 291 
to 1,054). During the same period papers accepted for publica- 
tion began to accumulate faster than they could be published. 
During the entire 22 year period the Business Management, 
without any cost to the Journal, has provided office equipment and 
overhead, telephone service (a considerable item), and innumer- 
able miscellaneous items of office supplies. 
Also, storage accommodation for back numbers which have now 
reached a total of 38,714 copies or, on the basis of 10 numbers to 
a volume, the equivalent of a library of 3,871 volumes. 
Some part of the time of five persons, besides the Business 
Manager, has been given to Jowrnal business for many vears. The 
monetary value of the services of these five persons for 1935, 
calculated on the percentage of time given and the salary rates of 
each, amounts to a total of nearly $1,600. Against this, the 
Journal paid, m1 1935, $900, leaving a net contribution by the 
3otanic Garden of nearly $700 worth of personal service. 
During the past 22 years the Journal has paid a total of $7,630 
for the personal service of the Business Management. Against 
this, the Botanic Garden has contributed a total of $5,284.87, 
leaving a difference of $2,345.13 paid from regular Journal in- 
come. Dividing this by 22, we find that the Journal has paid out 
of its regular income, exclusive of Botanic Garden contributions, 
an average of $106.56 a year, or $8.88 a month, for personal 
service, which has involved a portion of the time of six persons— 
Business Manager, Business Manager’s secretary, stenographer, 
stock room clerk, accountant, and business office clerk. Only the 
two latter have ever received any compensation for their services. 
American Journal of Botany business has taken some part of the 
time of practically every business day for many years. 
In addition to making cash contributions totaling $5,284, the 
1e National Academy of Sciences 
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Management has secured from t 
* erants-in-aid ” totaling $3,500. In securing these grants, the 
Management was handicapped by the discrepancy above noted 
between the amounts of members’ and non-members’ subscriptions. 
Thus, in transnutting one of its contributions, the Secretary of the 
Academy wrote to the Business Manager as follows: 
