An Act TO PROVIDE FOR THE PUBLICATION OF THE REPORTS AND PAPERS OF 
THE INDIANA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 
[Approved March 11, 1895.] 
WHEREAS, The Indiana Academy of Science, a chartered 
Preamble. scientific association, has embodied in its constitution a pro- 
vision that it will, upon the request of the Governor, or of the 
several departments of the State government, through the Governor, and 
through its council as an advisory body, assist in the direction and execu- 
tion of any investigation within its province, without pecuniary gain to 
the Academy, provided only that the necessary expenses of such investi- 
gation are borne by the State, and, 
WHEREAS, The reports of the meetings of said Academy, with the sey- 
eral papers read before it, have very great educational, industrial and 
economic value, and should be preserved in permanent form, and, 
WHEREAS, The Constitution of the State makes it the duty of the Gen- 
eral Assembly to encourage by all suitable means intellectual, scientific 
and agricultural improvement, therefore, 
SrecTion 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the 
Publication 
of the re- State of Indiana, That hereafter the annual reports of the 
orts of the 
eee meetings of the Indiana Academy of Science, beginning with 
of Science. the report for the year 1894, including all papers of scientific 
or economic value, presented at such meetings, after they shall have been 
edited and prepared for publication as hereinafter provided, shall be pub- 
lished by and under the direction of the Commissioners of Public Printing 
and Binding. 
Sec. 2. Said reports shall be edited and prepared for pub- 
aeret lication without expense to the State, by a corps of editors to 
be selected and appointed by the Indiana Academy of Science, 
who shall not, by reason of such services, have any claim against the 
State for compensation. The form, style of binding, paper, typography 
and manner and extent of illustration of such reports, shall 
aes regs be determined by the editors, subject to the approval of the 
EevOny Commissioners of Public Printing and Stationery. Not less 
than 1,500 nor more than 3,000 copies of each of said reports shall be pub- 
lished, the size of the edition within said limits, to be determined by the 
