Excerpt from Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1893, Vol. 27
The publications of the Academy in octavo form, called "Proceedings," were begun in 1846, by Dr. Asa Gray, then Corresponding Secretary. The original plan was to print with the proceedings of the meetings of the Society abstracts of the papers presented, reserving the more formal finished papers for the quarto publications, called "Memoirs." This practice was continued until 1873, by Professors W. B. Rogers and Joseph Lovering, who succeeded Dr. Gray in the same office, and during these twenty-seven years eight volumes were published. Meantime, on account of the difficulty of procuring abstracts, that feature of the plan fell into disuse; while the greater convenience of the octavo form for most scientific subjects, as well as its greater economy, led to the printing of papers in extenso amidst the proceedings of the meetings. For this reason, the undersigned, on assuming the direction of the Academy"s publications, in 1873, published the scientific papers separately, under appropriate captions, and made the proceedings of the meetings an appendix to the papers; and daring the nineteen years he has held the office of Corresponding Secretary an octavo volume thus made up has been published each year.
The original idea of incorporating with the proceedings of the meetings such brief abstracts of verbal communications as may be furnished by the authors was an excellent one; and although latterly the plan has been seldom followed, it has been by no means abandoned. It should be borne in mind by members that this method of partial publication is still practicable, and may be very useful for preliminary notices during an extended investigation.
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