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IOWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE 
Programs, letterheads, and postage for secretary 12.64: 
Letterheads, receipt blanks, and supplies for treasurer 7.25 
Printing and binding expense, extra pp. Volume XX... 144.12 
Wrapping and sending out Volume XX 10.00 
Balance on hand, May 1, 1915 7.65 
■ $220.87 
A. 0. Thomas, 
Treasurer. 
EEPORT OF COMMITTEE ON SECRETAEY’S EEPOET. 
Your committee to whom was referred the secretary’s report 
beg leave to recommend as follows : 
1. In regard to the binding of the Proceedings in buckram, 
three hundred copies should be bound in buckram. This is 
made possible because the State has assumed some of the burden 
of the Academy so far as publication is concerned. 
2. It is the opinion of your committee that honorary member- 
ship should be awarded only to such scientists as have ren- 
dered science some distinguished service, and then this honor 
should be awarded only on the recommendation of a committee 
report presented to the Academy at one of its regular sessions. 
With reference to the transfer of fellows from active to the 
corresponding lists, this to include also the past presidents who 
have moved from the State, this article or section of the con- 
stitution should be revised in such a way as to safeguard the 
principles for which the Academy stands. It might be well to 
have this change from active to corresponding membership ap- 
ply only to persons who have been members for ten years. 
3. The Academy should adopt some plan as soon as practic- 
able to give a diploma or some other suitable recognition for 
meritorious scientific work done in the State. This might be an 
annual event, some such plan as the following: 
The Iowa Academy, etc., hereby awards this diploma, etc., 
for distinguished work done in chemistry. 
President of the Iowa Academy of Science. 
Secretary of the Iowa Academy of Science. 
4. It would seem desirable to publish a complete index to the 
Academy when twenty-five volumes are completed. 
