PREFATORY.

The Transactions of the Forty-fourth Annual Meeting have been delayed several months on account of the failure of Indianapolis banks. The Committee on Publication is not responsible for the delay.

The Transactions contain twenty-four papers, and discussions on most of those read. A part of the discussions are separated from the papers, owing to the fact that they were mislaid by the stenographer and were not found until the papers upon which they are based were in print.

The committee again makes its annual and urgent appeal to the secretaries of the county societies to give the full name of each member of the society, and to make their report in just such form as it should appear in the State report.

Hoping that the arduous labor of the Chairman of the Committee on Publication in revising papers and discussions has resulted in a volume creditable to the Society and to the committee, this volume is

Respectfully submitted,

A. W. BRAYTON,

Chairman.

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