46 Thirty-ninth Anmial Meeting 



qnaintance with editorial work that it is going to be rather 

 difficnh to find a committee that will be able to do this work. 

 The secretary has done it heretofore, and ever}- one knows 

 it is not a light matter. However, that will have to be con- 

 sidered in the selection of the committee. It will alwa3's be 

 a live proposition to find a committee that will really do the 

 work. It is no very easy matter to get publications in print 

 properly. 



Mr. Seymour Bower: Am I to understand that the sec- 

 retary is to submit the proofs the same as usual, or is the 

 action of the editing committee final ? Would authors have 

 no opportunity of making corrections themselves? I think 

 that the proofs, both of the discussions and papers, should 

 be returned to the authors, because this editing committee, 

 while it would polish up and put in nice form, might unwit- 

 tingly change an idea and convey a wrong impression. 



Mr. Titcomb: It is my understanding, after conferring 

 with the other members of the committee, that following the 

 revision the matter would go to the authors, that is, any 

 minutes of discussion, if they are to be edited at all, of 

 course, should be edited 1)efore they go to the author or 

 speaker, so that he may have a cliance to see whether he has 

 been misrepresented and may make necessary corrections. 



President: I of course assume that this committee will 

 act just as any other editor would act. submitting proofs to 

 the authors and incorporating an\' necessary corrections that 

 they may indicate. 



Mr. Meehan : That is my idea — it should naturally go 

 back to the author. 



The resolution as amended, being acceptable to the com- 

 mittee, was adopted. 



President: I will name this committee later. 



Mr. Meehan: I move that we take a recess subject t(^ 

 the call of the president. 



This motion prevailed, and a recess was taken until 3.10 

 p. m., when the meeting was called to order. 



President; Before we he-An the consideration of the 



