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Frank D. Phinney, 



Joseph E. Putnam, 



H. L. Preston, 



George W. Rafter, 



Anna H. Searing, 



Sanderson Smith, 



Lewis Swift, 



M. A. Veeder, 



John Wahon, 



C. H. Ward, 



Henry A. Ward, 



F. W. Warner, 



A. L. White, 



L. A. Weigel, . 



Henry S. Williams, 



64 persons have presented one paper each. 



Total, .... 



226 



The 64 persons who have presented but one formal paper include 

 many Fellows and Members of the Academy as well as many visitors 

 of national reputation. Among the latter are H. Carrington Bolton, 

 William R. Dudley, B. E. Fernow, David J. Hill, Edward L, Nichols, 

 Charles S. Prosser, J. Stanley-Brown, Heinrich Ries, Warren Upham, 

 W. W. Rowlee, Charles D. Walcott, Lester F. Ward. 



Picblications. Up to June, 1896, the Academy had published 

 two volumes of the proceedings and 150 pages of volume 3, making 

 altogether 735 pages of print, not including the brochure covers, each 

 of which carried four pages of print. This is certainly a very 

 creditable record for seven years of work, considering the small 

 resources of the Academy in money, derived wholly from the dues of 

 the members. But this printing had been such a strain upon the 

 treasury that, along with the effect of the financial stress in the business 

 world following the panic of 1893, the printing of the Proceedings 

 was suspended for a time. Another brochure of 80 pages, being 

 brochure 2 of Vol. 3, was published in March, 1900. This placed in 

 print the Academy record down to April, 1896. We are six years 

 behind in the printing of our transactions. During the past year, 

 1901, 66 pages of volume 4 have been published on a new plan, that 

 of printing papers as separate brochures, without the record of admin- 

 istrative business or miscellaneous scientific proceedings, reserving 



