20 Thirty-Third Annual Meeting 
President: The resolution is that after this year the dues 
be fixed at $2.00 a year. Now it would be proper at this time to 
take up that question, and I trust there will be a free and full 
discussion of it. 
Mr. Meehan: I would like to ask the treasurer what is the 
number of members who have not paid up? That will give us 
some clue as to what the natural deficit should be. 
Mr. Willard: Our present membership is about 375; there 
are 37 members who owe for the 1903 dues, there are 35 mem- 
bers who owe for the 1903 and 1902 dues and there are 8 mem- 
bers who owe for 1901, 1902 and 1903 dues. I have sent out at 
least three notices to each of these members and to quite a num- 
ber of them I have written personal letters, explaining to them 
the cost the society had been put to to get out the reports, etc., 
and urging them to pay up their dues and remain members or 
express their desires if they wished to have their names dropped 
and in numbers of instances I have had no response whatever. 
Mr. Meehan: It appears from the statement of the treas- 
urer that even if the annual dues of all members were paid up 
there would still be a deficit; that is at $1.00 a year the dues 
would not cover expenses. Is that correct Mr. Treasurer—the 
natural dues of this association will not pay the natural running 
expenses. 
Mr. Willard: That is a fact. 
Mr. Meehan: Then there is only one thing to do, viz, to 
raise the dues. 
Mr. Willard: One thing that has helped us out this year 
was the $30.00 or $40.00 turned over by the Baird Memorial 
Fund Committee. There is no question in my mind but that 
with the dues at $1.00 per year we will again fall behind, and the 
treasurer will again have to advance the money. 
President: It is a good thing we have a good treasurer. 
( Applause. ) 
Mr. Titcomb: J wish to support the resolution. I was 
present at Woods Hole, I believe, when the dues were reduced 
