5^ PROCSSDINdS S. I. ASSJf. AEifS AffD SCIENCES. [VoL. 1 



tution and By-Laws, names and residences of the Board of Trustees, 

 list of members, trustees, officers and standing committees, under one 

 cover, so pag-ed as to precede the pubHcation of the regular Proceed- 

 ings of the Association, which was issued on April lOth, I906, begin- 

 ning with the proceedings of the first meeting and ending with the pro- 

 ceedings of the meeting of December 6th, 1905. 



This is the first annual meeting of the new corporation. The last 

 annual meeting of th^ old body occurred on November loth, 1904. 



During the past year the trustees named in the Act of Incorporation 

 attended to all business affairs of the Corporation, leaving matters of 

 scientific and historical interest to be transacted at the regular monthly 

 meetings of the members of the Association. 



The particular aspect of the affairs of the Association may be gath- 

 ered from the reports of officers and of the trustees already Submitted. 

 These will inform you of the membership, the finances, the work oi 

 your trustees, officers and standing committees, the condition of youf 

 museum and library, and other matters of business. It is not necessary 

 for me to dwell upon them further than to remark that your member- 

 Ship was never larger or more fairly representative of the intelligence 

 and standing of the community. 



Your treasury has never been in better condition. Your business 

 affairs have been looked after studiously and conscientiously on the 

 part of the trustees, and were never more encourag'ing than at the pres- 

 ent time. 



Accessions to your scientific and historical collections have been 

 numerous, valuable and interesting. Your library is constantly en- 

 larging. The publication of your Proreedings has improved in style 

 and substance. Your publications are more appreciated than ever^ 

 and new requests for them come with frequent recurrence from scientific 

 bodies and libraries in all parts of this country as well as abroad. 

 Among those seeking your publications are the Boston Public Library, 

 the Public Library of St. Louis, the Library of McGill University of 

 Montreal, and the Library of the University of Michigan. Requests 

 frequently come in for back numbers of your Proceedings. Your ex- 

 change list includes libraries, cissociations and individuals not only in 

 every quarter of this country, covering twenty-one different states, but 

 in many parts of Europe, Canada, England, Scotland, Ireland, Ger- 

 many, Russia, Sweden, Bohemia, Mexico, Brazil, Costa Rica and 

 Uruguay. In these simple facts we may take a modest but natural 

 pride, which should stimulate us all to render our Proceedhigs even 

 more worthy of the appreciation and respect which they have so gener-- 

 ally received. 



