AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE PUBLICATION OF THE REPORTS 
AND PAPERS OF THE INDIANA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 
[Approved March 11, 1895. ] 
Wuereas, The Indiana Academy of Science, a chartered scientific 
association, has embodied in its constitution a provision 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 
board, assist in the direction and execution of any investigation within its 
province, without pecuniary gain to the Academy, provided only that the 
necessary expenses of such investigation 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 eco- 
nomic value, and should be preserved in permanent form; and, 
Wuereas, The Constitution of the State makes it the duty of the 
yeneral Assembly to encourage by all suitable means intellectual, scientific 
and agricultural improvement; therefore, 
Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State 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 Commission- 
ers of Public Printing and Binding. 
Sec. 2. Said reports shall be edited and prepared for publication with- 
out 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 sery- 
ice, 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 Station- 
