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index. But if the card index is kept in the Secretary's 

 office it seems to me that the only thing necessary would be 

 to write to the Secretary and state the subject in which you 

 were interested, and get him to furnish references from the 

 card index to the volumes and transactions containing the 

 desired information. I have a library of 10,000 volumes 

 and am only half way through a card index of it. 



Mr. Meehan : It would be perhaps better to change from 

 a card index to a reference index. 



Mr. Fearing: I think a reference index is needed. A 

 card index that is kept up to date cannot be printed on 

 account of constant additions. 



President : I think Mr. Fearing is right. The matter of 

 printing was my conclusion from what Mr. Titcomb said. 



Mr. Titcomb: I would rather have it in card form. You 

 can keep it up to date by printing cards every year, and all 

 could get copies of the cards. But probably it would be in 

 the interests of economy to have a simple topical detailed 

 index. Every time fry versus fingerlings is discussed I want 

 the index to show it. 



Dr. Bash ford Dean^ New York City : Will the index 

 refer exclusively to the publications of the Society? 



Mr. Clark: That is the aim of my motion. We have 

 proposed a perfectly capable committee that will, no doubt, 

 correspond with Mr. Fearing and others and get their ideas 

 before formulating a report for our next meeting. They 

 have a whole year in which to determine what ought to be 

 done. 



Mr. Fearing: I possess a complete set of the Trans- 

 actions of this Society, lacking the first five numbers, and 

 those Transactions are now being indexed in the way Mr. 

 Titcomb suggests. 



Mr. Titcomb: Good! 



Mr. Fearing: It will be a matter of perhaps two or 

 three months before I can have it printed, and wlien it is 

 finished I shall be very glad to have a sufficient number of 

 copies prepared to send one to each member of the Society. 



