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W. HORACE HOSKINS. 
to be placed in my keeping so that only a part of our proceed- 
ings have ever been published. 
For your and our good I beg of you to clothe your Pub¬ 
lication Committee with such control of all your proceedings 
(which become your property the moment they are offered for 
consideration befoie your meetings) that all corrections and 
changes may be made from proof copies, if demanded by the 
writer, and in this way you can be assured of a complete and 
prompt issue of your journal of proceedings. I would sug- 
gest lor your consideration the wisdom of combining this and 
last yeai s leport under one cover, together with a complete < 
list of all the officers and members since your organization. 
Allow this only to members and applicants, to all others de- ; 
siring a copy at the exact cost for printing. 
We issued one year ago one thousand programmes for our ] 
meeting, foi the present gathering some seventeen hundred 
and fifty were printed, and of this number sixteen hundred i 
have been sent out through the mail. 
Some five hundred lists of officers and committees were • 
issued after our Washington meeting, and on January ist of j 
this year five hundred copies of our lists of officers, commit- . 
tees and members were printed for our use. A copy of each 
one of these was sent to each member. 
v During the year I purchased two hundred and fifty copies 
of the October and November issues of The Comparative Jour¬ 
nal. To each member not a Journal subscriber I sent an Oc¬ 
tober number which contained the stenographer’s report. 
The others were judiciously distributed and have brought us 
a lich return in new applicants and a revived interest in our 
society. 
Some three hundred and fifty copies of the list of appli¬ 
cants have been issued, and though they were only placed in 
the printer’s hands on the 15th, I have found opportunities of 
sending out nearly one hundred, particularly to those who did 
not expect to be with us, that they might scrutinize the list 
and forward any objections that they deemed best for the 
welfare of our Association. Our one thousand application 
blanks are exhausted and will require renewing after this meet- 
