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Society in such small numbers that they play practically no 

 part in the problem. 



Dr. Palmer : I will offer the following amendment to 

 the report : 



1. Thai in lieu of the suggestion of the committee that 5 volumes 

 be sold at $1 apiece, the committee be authorized to fix the price of 

 individual volumes according to their scarcity. 



2. That the committee be authorized to ascertain and report to 

 the Society the probable cost of reprinting the earlier scarce volumes. 



3. That the committee be authorized to obtain by purchase any 

 of the latter numbers which may be needed or specially desirable. 



4. That the committee be authorized to report to the Society a 

 method of financing the publication of the index at an early date, 

 because indexes are very expensive publications, costing more than 

 twice that of ordinary matter. 



In ihe case of the index I spoke of it was necessary for 

 certain members to underwrite the project to the extent of 

 a considerable sum, with the idea that later they would be 

 repaid. This was done in order to insure early publication 

 of the index. Indexing is usually one and one-half or 

 double-priced matter; and it will cost something to get this 

 index out. 



Amendment seconded and unanimously carried. 



Dr. Ward: I believe a motion is still pending on the re- 

 port of the Executive Committee. We have just had an 

 amendment to that motion. Was the reference to the Ex- 

 ecutive Committee, as I understood, or was it possibly to 

 the Publication Committee? 



Dr. Palmer: My amendment was to the report of the 

 Executive Committee. 



President : It is moved that the committee's report as 

 amended be adopted. 



Seconded and unanimously carried. 



The Auditing Committee then presented a report on the 

 Treasurer's account as follows : 



