REPORTS OF OFFICERS 15 



EEPORT OF THE SECRETAEY 



A meeting of the Council of the Academy was held at 

 Urbana, Sept. 28, 1919 with the following members pres- 

 ent: Ward, Crook, "Waterman, and Pricer. Dr. H. J. 

 Van Cleave, third member of the Committee on Publica- 

 tions also met with the Council. 



The first matter of business was that of the publication 

 of Volumes XI and XII of the Transactions. After due 

 discussion, the Librarian was instructed to make requi- 

 sition on the Superintendent of Printing of the State for 

 the printing of the two volumes in editions of not less 

 than 1,000 copies each. It is probable that the $750.00 

 available from the State for printing during the fiscal 

 year ending June 30, 1920 will not be sufficient to pay for 

 the two volumes, but the shortage will not be very great 

 for the State has a good contract for printing which will 

 make the cost much less than it would be through a pri- 

 vate printer. 



The Council and the Committee on Publications jointly 

 considered the matter of furnishing free reprints of 

 papers to authors. Considering the fact that the editions 

 of the Transactions must be small, and the further fact 

 that reprints constitute an excellent form for the dis- 

 semination of papers, it was decided to establish as a per- 

 manent policy of the Academy to furnish authors with 

 100 copies of their papers in reprint form, the authors 

 to pay for special covers if they desire them. It was 

 also decided that the reprints should bear on the back 

 page a brief statement concerning the Academy, such as 

 the number of years it has been organized, the number 

 of members, the conditions of membership, the terms on 

 which back numbers of Transactions may be had etc. 



Considerable delay was experienced in getting the 

 papers of these two volumes together. Most of the papers 

 on the forestry survey were presented at the meeting last 

 year in only tentative form, and the most of them were 

 re-written and new drawings made. A good many of 

 those who presented papers at the Joliet meeting had 

 removed from the State, and Avere hard to locate. Fi- 

 nally, however, most of the papers were brought together 



