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of its ‘‘Proceedings’’ and the second series of its ‘‘Jour- 
nal.’? By exchange the Academy has received many val- 
uable series issued by kindred societies all over the 
world, most of which have been received without inter- 
ruption and prove indispensible to investigators who de- 
sire to go into the earlier literature of their subjects. 
Today publications are exchanged with 306 foreign and 
114 home societies. 
The growth of the Academy in recent years has been 
essentially along the lines defined by its founders. Its 
library has been steadily increased through its affiliations 
with other scientific bodies in this and foreign countries; 
its collections are housed and its meetings held in its own 
building; and the Transactions have been published in 
unbroken series and kept up to a high and worthy stand- 
ard. 
As the present must ever be accumulating knowledge 
for the future, the influence of the Academy of Science 
will grow greater and greater as the years go by, bring- 
ing within its folds all those interested in the develop- 
ment of science, fostering and strengthening the scien- 
tific spirit, and passing on from generation to genera- 
tion the achievements of science, as expressed in its 
motto, ‘‘for human knowledge and power.”’ 
Issued December 29, 1914. 
