The Board of Trustees of The Herpetologists' League (HL) met on 3 July 2002 (full minutes on the society's web site; www.inhs.uiuc.edu/cbd/HL).
The HL began the fiscal year with $181,086 and ended the fiscal year with $218,319 (full report for May 2001–April 2002 on the society's web site).
Under old business, we determined that nothing in our contract prohibits disseminating PDF reprints and that the HL would not suffer any revenue loss if PDF reprints were distributed by authors. We also agreed to provide gratis copies of Herpetologica and Herpetological Monographs to the EMBL Reptile Database (i.e., the classification of all living reptiles found at http://www.embl-heidelberg.de/uetz/LivingReptiles.html).
Under new business, four policies developed by the 2002 Meeting Planning Committee were modified and approved.
1. Limited Presentations at the Annual Meeting. Next year, participants may present no more than one oral and one poster presentation at the Annual Meeting. Co-authorship...