47 6 The Ohio Naturalist. [Vol. IX, No. 5, 



Orton Hall, Jan. 18, 1909. 



The club was called to order by the President, Miss Freda 

 Detmers, and the minutes of the previous meeting were read and 

 approved as read. 



The program consisted of Reports from those present at the 

 Baltimore Meeting, December, 1908, of the American Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science and Affiilated Socities. Prof. 

 Osborn stated that this was probably the largest aggregation of 

 scientific men ever gathered in the countr3\. Prof. Osborn 

 reported on the meetings of the American Association of Econo- 

 mic Entomologists mentioning Prof. S. A. Forbes' address in 

 which a line of work was presented which will put entomology 

 on a wider biological basis. Of the papers given before the 

 Entomological Society of America, he mentioned in particular 

 that of Prof. Poulton of Oxford, England, on Mimicry in Ameri- 

 can butterflies. 



Prof. Prosser gave an extended account of the geology section 

 laying particular emphasis upon the proper recognition which 

 Paleontology is being given in stratigraphical work. 



Prof. Lazenby reported on the Darwin celebration. 



Prof. Griggs stated that while in the Botany section, papers 

 of fundamental importance were read no great stride in science was 

 in evidence. The work consisted of a large number of papers 

 of real though not striking scientific value. 



Dr. G. D. Hubbard described the papers on geographic and 

 physiographic work as a series of smaller contributions to the 

 greater problems. 



Mr. Herbert Osborn, Jr., gave a report of the three views 

 of evolution as brought out at the meetings: (1) Daven- 

 port supports the theory of mutation as a predominating factor 

 of evolution; (2) Eiganmann, of Indiana, supports the theor}- of 

 the inheritance of acquired characters; (3) H. F. Osborn in his 

 study of paleontolog\' supports the theory .of evolution by small 

 variations. 



Messrs. J. F. Zimmer and L. L. Scott gave brief reports. 



Prof. Griggs, the chairman of the committee to consider a 

 change in the time of meeting, reported that in the judgment of 

 the committee no other night of the week seemed any more desir- 

 able than the present time, viz.: the first Monday of each month. 

 A motion was made and carried to the effect that action on the 

 report of the committee be laid on the table until the next meet- 

 ing. 



Wilbur Mikescll was elected to membership. 



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Date of Publication, March 15, 190<). 



