AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE PUBLICATION OF THE REPORTS 

 AND PAPERS OF THE INDIANA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 



[Approved March 11, 1895.] 



Whereas, The Indiana Academy of Science, a chartered 

 scientific association, has embodied in its constitution a 

 provision that it will, upon the request of the Governor, or of the several 

 departments of the State government, through the Governor, and through 

 its council as an advisory body, assist in the direction and execution of 

 any investigation within its province, without pecuniary gain to the Acad- 

 emy, provided only that the necessary expenses of such investigation are 

 borne by the State ; and, 



Whereas, The reports of the meetings of said Academy, with the sev- 

 eral papers read before it, have very great educational, industrial and eco- 

 nomic value, and should be preserved in permanent form ; and 



Whereas, The Constitution of the State makes it the duty of the Gen- 

 eral Assembly to encourage by all suitable means intellectual, scientific and 

 agricultural improvement ; therefore, 



Section 1. Be it enacted by tlie General Assembly of p ,,. .. f 

 the State of Indiana, That hereafter the annual reports of the Reports of 

 the meetings of the Indiana Academy of Science, beginning . , . 



with the report for the year 1894, including all papers of Science, 

 scientific or economic value, presented at such meetings, after they shall 

 have been edited and prepared for publication as hereinafter provided, shall 

 be published by and under the direction of the Commissioners of Public- 

 Printing and Binding. 



Sec. 2. Said reports shall be edited and prepared for 



publication without expense to the State, bv a corps of 



Editing 

 editors to be selected and appointed by the Indiana Academy Reports. 



of Science, who shall not, by reason of such services, have 



any claim against the State for compensation. The form, style of binding, 



paper, typography and manner and extent of illustration of _, 



Number of 



such reports shall be determined by the editors, subject to printed 

 the approval of the Commissioners of Public Printing and ReDorts - 

 Stationery. Not less than 1,500 nor more than 3,000 copies of each of said 



