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and ought to be presented for publication, though the Council have 
already bravely undertaken to bring out two brochures of the nine- 
teenth volume. If they are to publish what ought to be published, 
increased revenue must be provided or special gifts of money must be 
solicited. 
Your officers are charged only with administering the business of 
the Academy and holding it to its declared purposes. They must of 
necessity see and either meet or avoid financial difficulties. I submit 
for your thoughtful consideration the question whether, if not actively 
supported by you individually in every effort to meet such needs, they 
are not likely in the long run to have confined their administrative 
effort to escaping them; whether in seeing and reporting them, they 
may not justly claim to have done their full share of the duty—which 
is as personal to each one of us who cherishes the Academy as to the 
few to whose direct supervision we entrust its affairs. 
You can make the task of administration plain and simple if you 
will furnish the means of adequate administration. You will furnish 
the means immediately needed if you will promptly add 150 to the roll of 
active members. This is your duty, rather than that of your officers; 
it is not difficult; will you not do it? Membership in the Academy is 
worth while. Every scientific worker in the community owes it to 
himself as an investigator and to his science. No man trained in 
science but compelled to devote his life effort to its application in the 
arts and professions can afford to dissociate himself from the closest 
possible contact with investigators and their investigations. Bare 
examination of the subjects that have been popularly presented before 
the Academy during the last decade is enough to carry conviction of 
the educational value of membership to professional man, teacher 
and business man alike, for touch with the scientific progress of the 
world is essential to all; and there are few more desirable and no 
more worthy objects to which money may be given than those which 
the Academy prosecutes by aid of the six dollars contributed by each 
local member in the payment of his annual dues. Last year 135 
members were elected. Their proposal blanks bear the names of only 
33 members as sponsors—not even half of whom may be assumed to 
have presented to these candidates the advantages of membership. 
This privilege is neither personally nor exclusively theirs, and I sug- 
gest that each of us make haste to claim his own share in it. 
I have confined myself closely to the present activities and 
urgently vital needs of the Academy; not because these represent 
what I see as most desirable or necessary in its life, but because they 
must be reckoned with at once, while other and greater needs and 
activities can not be seriously considered until these have received 
adequate attention. Earnest, individual, helpful interest in meeting 
the minor crises of today will ensure a future fruition of which, as of 
that of the past half century, the community, the Academy as an 
organization, and each of its members who has aided in its work 
according to his ability and talent, may be justly and affectionately 
proud. : 
(Signed ) WILLIAM TRELEASE, 
President. 
