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it would be a very good thing for the Society if reprints 

 were made of the lacking volumes, omitting all extraneous 

 matter bound in the earlier volumes, and simply reprinting 

 the papers found in each index. 



Dr. Charles H. Townsend, New York City : Most of 

 the early numbers are very thin pamphlets. I think the sug- 

 gestion of reprinting is a very good one. They could prob- 

 ably be printed in a single volume at small expense. 



Mr. Fearing : For 26 years I have been trying to com- 

 plete my set, and I was prepared to pay up to $25 for a 

 single copy of the first volume. I know of only two copies 

 of that issue ; one is in the New York Public Library, which 

 was part of Mr. Fred Mather's set, and the other in the 

 hands of the United States Bureau of Fisheries. Mr. Living- 

 ston Stone's wife has written me that she thinks that some- 

 where Mr. Stone has a complete set, but they have not so far 

 been able to find it. My own set is complete aside from the 

 first volume. 



Mr. Evans: I see by the Secretary's report that the 1910 

 proceedings cost $1200 for 700 copies. Is it right to sell 

 them for $1 ? 



Dr. Ward: I called attention to the fact that the rules of 

 the Society provide that the 1910 issue is to be sold at $2, 

 and that other copies are to be sold at $1. At the same time 

 the committee felt, as it could offer no complete sets what- 

 ever, nor anything like a complete set, that it was necessary 

 to bait the hook which was dropped into the library pool 

 with a pretty delicate morsel — in other words, an oppor- 

 tunity of getting a $2 book for $1. I have here a list of the 

 copies available. There are only 19 of the 50 volumes 

 which can be had at all ; one copy of 3 ; three of 5 ; five or six 

 copies of 4 volumes ; and then of six volumes there are 70 

 to 125. Practically, in other words, there are only 8 vol- 

 umes that could be supplied to any extent — from 1904 to 

 the present day. The other volumes are in the hands of the 



