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Academy. Experience has developed several methods for meeting each of these requirements, and practice has polished the Academy's performance. Since dissemination of this knowledge is the end result of its collection and evaluation, this has become a major effort in the Academy's operations. It is accomplished principally by means of five different classes of publications produced and distributed by the Academy. "The Transactions of The New York Academy of Sciences" are published monthly in consecutively numbered issues from November through June. the eight issues published in each academic year are grouped together annually to form a numbered volume covering that particular year. They contain most of the scientific papers which have been read before the monthly meetings of the fifteen Sections and Divisions of the Academy, and also, once a year, the report of the Academy's Annual Meeting. "The Annals of The New York Academy of Sciences" are published as monographs. The majority of these contain the papers presented at the Academy's conferences. The range of these monographs resulting from the conferences includes most of the exciting and significant developments now occurring in the progress of science and medicine to the extent that many are and will long remain classics in science. These, together with "The Transactions" and "The Sciences," have placed the Academy in the forefront of scientific publishing. "The Sciences," issued in twenty-four numbers each year, presents the complete spectrum of current scientific subjects for the purpose of keeping the reader informed of advances in fields other than those of his own specialization. There are five particularly significant volumes published in hard covers and classified as "Special Publications." These have had worldwide distribution and are considered of great scientific importance as classics in their fields. The first of these are "Climate and Evolution," by William Diller Matthew. The second volume in this series, "Balinese Character, a Photographic Analysis," by Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead. The last three result from the following important biological conferences and, consequently, are by multiple authors: "experimental Hypertension" "The Biology of Melanomas," and "Cellular Biology, Nucleic Acids and Viruses." A fifth group of publications results from a natural history survey of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands which was established in 1913 by The New York Academy of Sciences. This is a comprehensive work planned for publication in nineteen volumes of four parts each, of which fifty-six parts have been published to date. All publications of the Academy are catalogued in a "Publication List." This is available upon request. More than one million and a half copies of papers appearing in the Academy's publications were distributed during 1963. In addition to membership distribution, these were purchased by libraries, laboratories, schools, industrial corporations, and other interest organizations and individuals throughout the world. The great store of scientific information contained in all these publications would be of very limited value if it were available to the reader only in the Academy's 3
