Nov., 1919] Report Ohio Academy of Science ^ 7 



The Trustees announce that grants concerning which no reports 

 of progress have been received will be cancelled at the end of the year. 



Regarding the grant of $100.00 to Professor Bucher, it may be 

 desirable to explain that it was made for the purpose of relabelling a 

 valuable and extensive collection of Naiades made by the late George 

 W. Harper, of Cincinnati, and by him donated to the University of 

 Cincinnati. All had been carefully labelled as to locality, but the 

 labels were old, faded and many of them loose, so that there was great 

 danger of their being hopelessly disarranged and peiTnanently lost. 



The grant of a portion of the research fund to secure the preservation 

 of the collection is something of a departure from the usual practice, 

 but the object to be attained seemed to justify it. It was agreed on 

 the part of the Cincinnati authorities that the collection should forever 

 be available for study by any member of the Academy whose qualifica- 

 tions for such work were properly attested by its ofhcers. 



T. C. Mendenhall, Chairman, 

 Herbert Osborn. 



May 30, 1919. 

 The financial portion of the report of the Titistees of the Research 

 Pund has been audited and found correct. 



Raymond C. Osburn, 

 John H. Schaefner, 



Auditing Committee. 



Report of the Library Committee 



For the Library Committee, Mr. Reeder, of the Ohio State 



University Library, presented the following report, M^hich was 



received and ordered filed. 



May 29, 1919. 

 To the Ohio Academy of Science: 



The Library Committee begs leave to submit the following report : 



(1) The sales of publications during the year amounted to $13.90. 

 This sum has been turned over to the Treasurer. 



(2) Printed copies of the Annual Report of the Twenty-eighth 

 Meeting, 1918, were received about two weeks ago, and copies have been 

 mailed to all persons on the membership list as printed in that report, 

 and to all institutions, societies and libraries on the exchange list. 



(3) War conditions affected the exchange situation of the Academy 

 as it did of all scientific organizations. Fewer publications were issued 

 and transportation difficulties hindered their distribution. However, 

 since the resumption of near-peace conditions, the foreign societies are 

 informing us that they are now ready to restime exchange relations. 

 Institutions in this country are active in completing files and more 

 parts of the Academy's Proceedings have been sent out for this purpose 

 than usual. Several of these libraries have been restored to the exchange 

 mailing list. 



