-i Tz\.'enfy-iiinth Animal Meeting 



The President: As I understand the motion, it is the senti- 

 ment of the Society that members furnishing- papers are at hberty 

 to furnish dupHcates to any paper : ti:at the Secretary be in- 

 structed to inform ^Ir. Reynolds and other papers to this effect. 

 I would ask that the originals be considered the property of this 

 Society. 



Mr. Clark: I cannot help calling the attention of the mem- 

 bers to one thing- in this connection. Fifteen or eighteen years 

 ago this same question was ag-itated in this Society. At that time 

 the Forest & Stream had what might be called a cinch on the 

 papers. Our deceased member. Fred ^Slather, was connected 

 with that publication, and that went along for a year or two: then 

 we gave our papers to the -American Field, the Forest & Stream, 

 and I don't know but one other publication. That went along 

 for a time until a number were g-rabbing for the papers, and I 

 don't know, but it seems to me we are going to land just where 

 we did fifteen or twenty years ago. It was then decided that the 

 best thing- to do was simply not to give them to any pub- 

 lication ; anyone that wanted them must join the Society. 

 Xow. if we are not a little careful we are going to drift 

 into that same trouble. We had two or three sessions that were 

 ver\- warm over this same question. It was said then that the 

 papers ought really to go to the public. I admit that they are for 

 the purpose of instructing the people in the lines of our work, but 

 I fear you will have some trouble on the start. 



Mr. Davis: I heartily concur in the remarks of Mr. Clark: 

 the articles presented here are valuable, thev are verv valuable, 

 and many are anxious to get them. I have had letters and 

 applications for them from a great many, but it strikes me that 

 the ptiblic is not entitled to these publications unless they pay 

 for them. \\'e pay for theni and spend our time, the members 

 prepare these articles and they are valuable, and I do not know 

 why they should be given gratuitously to all the papers: they can 

 get all the proceedings here, the gist of them, through the news- 

 paper reports of the meeting. 



Mr. Ravenel : We simply leave it optional with the author. 



