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After extended discussion, the Academy took the fohowing 

 actions : 



1. That the Committee on the Relation of the Academy 

 to the Ohio Journal of Science be instructed to formulate more 

 definitely the two plans, proposed respectively in the majority 

 and minority reports, and to submit both to the membership 

 of the Academy for an expression of opinion, this to be con- 

 sidered not as a formal ballot, but merely as a guide in the 

 further consideration of the question by the next Annual 

 Meeting. 



2. That the i\cademy request the appointment upon the 

 Editorial Board of the Journal of one representative from each 

 organized section of the Academy. (Note — The Secretary has 

 received notice of the cordial agreement of the management of 

 the Journal to this request.) 



3. That the detailed arrangements for the coming year be 

 referred to the Executive Committee with power. 



No formal report was presented by the Committee on 

 Legislation. The Committee was continued. 



Report of Committee on Catalog of Scientific Journals. 



The following report was presented by Mr. Reeder, of the 

 Ohio State University Library, for the Committee on Catalog 

 of Scientific Journals. The report was received and ordered 

 filed and the Committee continued to carry on the work. 



April 21, 191G. 

 To the Ohio Academy of Science: 



The Committee on the Union Catalog of Scientific Periodicals begs 

 leave to submit the following report: 



At a meeting held during the sessions of the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science, at the Ohio State University, December, 

 1915, it was decided to co-operate with the College Section of the Ohio 

 Library Association in the preparation, not of a purely scientific catalog, 

 but in a catalog of all periodical sets in Ohio Libraries. The College 

 Section of the Library Association, at its annual meeting in October, 

 1915, appointed a committee consisting of Messrs. Miller (Ohio Wes- 

 leyan). Read (Cincinnati), and Reeder (Ohio State), to begin the 

 preparation of a Union Catalog which would be of assistance to the 

 Universities and Colleges in handling requests for the inter-library loan 

 of books and volumes of sets. The Committee of the Academy felt that 

 such a Union Catalog, if complete, would include the scientific and 

 technical sets, and therefore duplicate the catalog planned by the 

 Academy. It was decided that co-operation in this undertaking was 



