Lhirty-fijth Annual Meeting BYA 
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“T want to ask you if you can follow this scheme for collecting dues next 
October. We will have a special statement card prepared for Academies. On its 
front will be a statement of the affiliation and blank spaces for imprinting the 
Academy name and the bill for 1921 dues. On the back will be blanks to be filled 
in by members, for information for this office and for Membership List, A. A. 
A. S. We will put the name and address of member on front of card and send all 
cards to you. We will also supply window envelopes for you to mail cards out in. 
You are to send these out about September 25 or so and they are to come back to 
you, with members’ remittances. You are to send the cards to this office with $4 
for each one. This scheme will get your members on cards here which are just like 
the cards of our other members. I hope you will fall into this idea, for it is essential 
that we have the same system for all our members. A new membership list is being 
prepared and it is necessary that we have all the information about all members 
promptly after October 1.” 
It was not only clear from this that the Association was expecting 
to reduce the joint dues of members of both organizations, but also 
they were going to help in obtaining an increasing membership in the 
Academies. 
After a year of this, however, the cost to the Association of remitting 
one dollar to each of its members who was also a member of a state 
Academy was greater than at first anticipated. In the correspondence 
of that period with Dr. Livingston, this amount lost to the Association 
by: its voluntary relinquishment of one dollar of the price of the sub- 
scription to ‘‘Science’’ came to be regarded as money needlessly turned 
back to the individuals from whom it had been collected. From the 
point of view of State Academies which do not publish Journals or 
Proceedings of a scientific nature and whose membership fee had always 
been lower than ours in the Ohio Academy it was a clear gain of a dollar 
per member. Dr. Livingston wishing to call attention to what was 
undoubtedly great financial assistance to these Academies gave a name 
to the remitted funds and called them ‘‘Grants of the Association to the 
Academies.’’ It must be remembered however that in our Academy we 
had not changed our dues or our Journal costs. To us it was simply the 
arrangement originally proposed in the St. Louis meeting of the Associa- 
tion, namely—a reduction in the cost of Science. We did not see any 
reason for charging more for the Ohio Journal of Science for the members 
of the Association than for the Academy members who were not also 
Association members, and we simply returned the money to the former. 
Personally speaking I did not think that a mistake at the beginning of 
our affiliation and I do not think it a mistake now. 
Correspondence was often voluminous over the manner of payments 
of the members and the affiliation arrangement for the past five years 
has been purely a financial arrangement from which no scientific ben- 
efits have accrued. As there were new plans evolved they would often 
come as “‘instructions’”’ from the Association office. There was no way 
of obtaining a list from the Association of its members who were desir- 
able from the standpoint of their attainments and residence in the State 
as prospective members of the Academy. We furnished the Association 
each year with the lists of our members. In 1923 the increases in enroll- 
ment in the Association through direct recommendation of the Treasurer 
were counted as seventeen. No account was taken at that time of the 
