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single one of them. We should certainly have some committee that wonkl 

 see that the young members are properly introduced to those with longer 

 years of service in the State. 



Another matter which should be taken up by the Academy and the 

 Executive Committee is the length of time taken to print our reports. A 

 man who is doing a bit of scientific work which is worth publishing, the 

 preparation of which involves much time and labor, must wait eleven 

 months for its appearance if he presents it to the Academy. A paper 

 that may be of value at the time of its presentation, may not be worth 

 nearly so much after a year has elapsed. You can not be sure that the 

 thing you say today is the thing you would say in the same form a year 

 from now. I think the Executive Committee should take this matter up 

 in some definite way, and see that the proceedings are ready for distri- 

 bution in less than a year from the date of meeting. 



Another thing, it seems to me, that we need is that our programs 

 should not be made up as they are now, in a comparatively haphazard 

 fashion. In the past we had some programs that were really capital, and 

 those who had these programs in charge would begin, say, in March or 

 April to send the various members letters, suggesting that it would be a 

 good time to arrange in their minds the subject they would present to the 

 Academy, and thus, long before the Academy meeting the Executive Com- 

 mittee bad in hand a well organized program. 



In conclusion, I suggest : a recognition of the social side, an im- 

 provement in the methods of getting out our reports, so that they may 

 be received very much more promptly than heretofore, and a return to 

 the old method of having the Executive Committee, made up of the Presi- 

 dent, Secretary and Program Committee, feel that a large part of their 

 work must be done before summer vacation if the meeting is to be a suc- 

 cess. The request for my subject, under the present practice, always 

 comes at a time when I am busier than at any other time of the year. As 

 a consequence I send in some title that sounds well, and does not take 

 much preparation, and trust in the main to the inspiration of the moment. 



I am thoroughly in accord with Mr. Wright's suggestion that this or- 

 ganization is losing a very great element of strength in not having asso- 

 ciated with it more closely the industrial scientists of the State. (Ap- 

 plause. ) 



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