PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE

1985 has been an eventful and successful year for the work of the Foundation. Your support and interest has made most of it possible. In addition to completing several books and papers in 1985, we have greatly enhanced our office staff and equipment; our 1985 Catalog has proved very valuable; funding has been generous, and major news coverage has accelerated. For 1986 we look forward to projects now underway with the Nibley Collected Works, warfare, temples, legal texts, King Benjamin's Speech, and many others.

We appreciate and always welcome your comments. Each F.A.R.M.S. Preliminary Report bears an inscription which states that the reports are "made available to be critiqued and improved and to stimulate further research." Your comments, suggestions, criticisms, and corrections are our most valued responses. They improve our collected knowledge. As B. H. Roberts wrote in 1909, "The book of knowledge is never a sealed book; rather it is an eternally open book in which one may go on constantly discovering new truths and modifying our knowledge of old ones." Your participation in this significant process is always invited.