20 IOWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE Vor. XXIX, 1922 
As soon as possible the second volume will be turned over to the 
printer. 
The Secretary regrets that the Printing Board saw fit to limit 
the pages of these volumes to 400 each. This was done after 
the Secretary had explained to the Board the purposes of the 
Academy and its publications and with full knowledge of recent 
procedure. If the members would exert themselves to urge upon 
the elective members of the board — the Attorney General, the 
Auditor of State and the Secretary of State — the undesir- 
ability of limiting the size of our volume, it might have some 
effect. Let it be remembered that this is election year. 
The Secretary will freely admit that much of the delay in is- 
suing the Proceedings occurs in his own office. With the work 
of the Academy added to the work of the Geological Survey it 
is not within the limits of his time or strength to read the copy 
and then the proof as quickly as he would like to do. So long 
as the Academy must choose a secretary from those of its members 
who are already busy with other work the outlook for more 
prompt publication does not seem very hopeful. It should be said, 
however, that because the Survey’s reports have been denied 
publication as have those of the Academy the situation this year 
is worse than usual and hence may be expected to be somewhat 
relieved by another year. 
The Academy has experienced a healthy growth during the 
year. The Treasurer reports that a year ago the membership 
numbered 313. At the Simpson meeting there were elected five 
fellows and fifty-four associates of whom forty-four accepted 
their election. During the year twenty-two names were dropped 
from the roll, chiefly, I believe, because of the constitutional pro- 
vision calling for. such action after two years financial delinquency. 
This leaves a net increase of twenty-seven in our membership, 
bringing it to the number of 340. This number is distributed as 
follows: Honorary Fellows, 6; Life Fellows, 24; Fellows, 167; 
Associates, 143. 
The present Secretary took office following the meeting for 
1914. At that time there were enrolled 260 members of all 
classes. Today, as already indicated, the membership is 340. The 
program for that meeting included fifty-nine titles and was the 
largest presented to the Academy up to that time. The program 
now in your hands contains 103 titles and nine additional were 
received too late for publication. These figures reveal not merely 
the material development of the Academy in the past eight years, 
