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single one of them. We should certainly have some committee that would 
see that the young members are properly introduced to those with longer 
years of service in the State. 
Another matter which shouid be taken up by the Academy and the 
Executive Committee is the length of time taken to print our reports. A 
man who is doing a bit of scientific work which is worth publishing, the 
preparation of which involves much time and labor, must wait eleven 
months for its appearance if he presents it to the Academy. <A paper 
that may be of value at the time of its presentation, may not be worth 
nearly so much after a year has elapsed. You can not be sure that the 
thing you say today is the thing you would say in the same form a year 
from now. I think the Executive Committee should take this matter up 
in some definite way, and see that the proceedings are ready for distri- 
bution in less than a year from the date of meeting. 
Another thing, it seems to me, that we need is that our programs 
should not be made up as they are now, in a comparatively haphazard 
fashion. In tne past we had some programs that were really capital, and 
those who had these programs in charge would begin, say, in March or 
April to send the various members letters, suggesting that it would be a 
good time to arrange in their minds the subject they would present to the 
Academy, and thus, long before the Academy meeting the Hxecutive Com- 
mittee had in hand a well organized program. 
In conclusion, I suggest: a recognition of the social side, an im- 
provement in the methods of getting out our reports, so that they may 
be received very much more promptly than heretofore, and a return to 
the old method of having the Executive Committee, made up of the Presi- 
dent, Secretary and Program Committee, feel that a large part of their 
work must be done before summer vacation if the meeting is to be a suc- 
cess. The request for my subject, under the present practice, always 
comes at a time when I am busier than at any other time of the year. As 
a consequence I send in some title that sounds well, and does not take 
much preparation, and trust in the main to the inspiration of the moment. 
IT am thoroughly in accord with Mr. Wright’s suggestion that this or- 
ganization is losing a very great element of strength in not having asso- 
ciated with it more closely the industrial scientists of the State.  (Ap- 
plause. ) 
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