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audience to branch into a discussion of a detail of the subject 

 rather than the whole, that the committee has felt disposed to 

 arrange for more definite titles during the coming lecture course, 

 in order that certain portions of the audience may not be disap- 

 pointed by any variation in the scope of the lecture as advertised. 



The serious defects in the acoustic properties of the large lecture 

 hall continue to discourage the attendance of as large an audience 

 as it is believed would be the case were this objection remedied, 

 and it is proposed to use one of the smaller halls in the basement 

 for certain of the lectures, which usually call a smaller audience 

 than others, for the purpose of testing its acoustic adaptability and 

 perhaps further use. 



The Transactions for the year 1905, part II and 1906, Part I 

 have been published and distributed and your Secretary has been 

 able to obtain very considerable improvement in the general appear- 

 ance of the volumes, with improved typography, while there has 

 been a considerable saving in the cost of printing. The committee 

 has been less generous in the printing of separates but it is believed 

 without in any way causing disappointment to those entitled to 

 them, and in this connection it has been possible to economize in 

 printing bills as compared with former years. 



J. "WooDW^ARD Manning 



James H. Bowditch 



John A. Pettigrew [Committee. 



Edward B. Wilder [ 



E. W. Wood J 



