ORGANIZATION OF THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY 



SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY. 



As the result of the sentiment expressed at the 1914 meeting 

 of the Ohio Academy of Science that the official organ of the 

 Academy, "The Ohio Naturalist," should be broadened and 

 made more comprehensive in scope, and feeling that the Ohio 

 State University had no publication representing the scientific 

 work being done at the institution, the members of the Biolog- 

 ical Club of the University, in whom the publication of the 

 "Ohio Naturalist" had been vested, called a meeting of repre- 

 sentatives of the various departments interested in science at 

 the university to discuss the advisability of publishing as 

 successor to the "Naturalist" a journal to be known as the 

 Ohio Journal of Science. 



The first meeting was held in May, 1915, and committees 

 appointed to outline preliminary plans. At subsequent meet- 

 ings the reports of the committees were discussed, interest in 

 the plan continued to develop, until at a meeting held Octo- 

 ber 13 the following self-explanatory Constitution was adopted. 

 The society as now constituted represents twenty-four depart- 

 ments of pure or applied science at the university. 



Raymond J. Seymour, 

 Secretary Pro Tem. 



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