Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual 
Session of the Iowa Academy 
of Science 
REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 
Fellows and Members of the Iowa Academy of Science: 
During the past year a number of problems have suggested 
themselves, Which it seems fitting to discuss briefly. 
The membership of the Academy has grown so much in re- 
cent years that it is now impossible to furnish all members 
with cloth bound copies of the Proceedings. It has proven a 
hard task this year to make 200 volumes supply 280 persons. 
As soon as its finances will permit the Academy should provide 
for a larger number of copies to be bound in buckram. This 
number should be 300 at least, in place of the present 200. 
In his last report to the Academy my predecessor, Professor 
Ross, suggested that original workers in science from other 
states when chosen as corresponding fellows of the Iowa Acad- 
emy ‘‘are really elected to honorary fellowships, the honor, 
sometimes perchance, being to the Academy rather than to the 
one so elected”. The constitution provides that in addition to 
those scientists who are elected from other states as correspond- 
ing fellows, active fellows removing to other states from this 
may be classed as corresponding fellows. The procedure of the 
Academy in regard to this latter point evidently has not been 
consistent and some fellows have been transferred to the corre- 
spondents’ list while others have not. Moreover there are three 
persons in the list of corresponding fellows whose residence 
is given as Iowa. I would suggest that this list be carefully 
revised by a committee well informed and with a definite plan 
in mind; and that the clause of the constitution providing for 
transferring of fellows from the active to the corresponding 
list be very rarely applied. If the intention of the founders of 
the Academy was to make the class of corresponding fellows 
an honorary one that purpose should be conserved by a careful 
