» PROCEEDINGS OF THE INDIANA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 



Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Aasenibly of the Stale of Indiana, 

 That hereafter the annual reports of the meetings of the Indiana Academy 

 of Science, beginning with 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 published by and under the direction of the Commissioners of Public 

 Printing and Binding. 



Sec. 2. Said reports shall be edited and prepared for publication without 

 expense to the State, by a corps of editors to be selected and appointed by 

 the Indiana Academy of Science, Avho shall not, by reason of such service, 

 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 be determined by the editors, subject to the approval of the 

 Commissioners of Public Printing and Stationery. Not less than 1,500 nor 

 more than .3,000 copies of each of said reports shall be published, the size of the 

 edition within said limits to be determined by the concurrent action of the 

 editors and the Commissioners of Public Printing and Stationery : Provided, 

 That not to exceed six hundred dollars ($600) shall be expended for such 

 publication in any one year, and not to extend beyond 1896: ProvidnU 

 That no sums shall be deemed to be ajiproi)riated for the year 1894. 



Sec. 3. All except three lumdred copies of eacli volume of said rejjorts 

 shall be placed in the custody of the State Lil>rarian, who shall furnish one 

 coi)y thtTeof to each pulilic library in the State, one copy to each university, 

 college or normal school in the State, one copy to each high school in the 

 State having a library, which shall make application therefor, and one copy 

 to such other institutions, societies or persons as may be designated by the 

 Academy through its editors or its council. The remaining three hundred 

 copies shall be turned over to the Academy to be disposed of as it may 

 determine. In order to provide for the preservation of the same it shall 

 be the duty of the Custodian of the State House to provide and place at the 

 disposal of the Academy one of the unoccupied rooms of the State House, 

 to he designated as the office of the Academy of Science, wherein said copies 

 of said reports belonging to the Academy, together with the original manu- 

 scripts, drawings, etc., thereof can be safely kept, and he shall also equip 

 the same with the necessary shelving and furniture. 



Sec. 4. An emergency is hereby declared to exist for the immediate 

 taking effect of this act, and it shall therefore take effect and be in force from 

 and after its passage. 



API'KOI'KIATIOX FOR 19l(i-1917. 



'V\w appropriation for the publication of the proceedings of the Academy 

 during the years 1916 and 1917 was increased by the Legislature in the 

 'lemral Appropriation bill, approved March 8, 19 lo. Tiiat portion of the 



