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organization wliich might in the future ask for appropriations, 

 and for this reason the bill died in committee. However, the 

 committee above named from the Academy presented the mas- 

 ter to the Secretary of State and secured a charter, so that since the 

 early part of 1916, the Oklahoma Academy of Science has been 

 a properly chartered organization. No funds have been asked 

 for in the past from the State and these proceedings are being- 

 published chiefly at the expense of Oklahoma University, in co- 

 operation with the Oklahoma Academy of Science and the Ok'a- 

 horna Geological Survey. Future years will bring many valuable 

 papers to the Academ.y, and the State should be called upon to 

 appropriate money for the printing of the proceedmgs from year 

 to year in order that copies may be available for all libraries of the 

 State. 



