April, 1919] Report Ohio Academy of Science 303 



"Owing to a necessary reduction in the size of the journal, it has 

 been very much overcrowded this year and it has seemed impossible 

 to find space for the report. I hope that the reduction in the size of 

 Science is only temporary and that you will be so kind as to send me 

 the report of next year's meeting. " 



The report will be prepared in case its publication is assured. 



Notices of the Twenty-eighth Annual Meeting have been sent to 

 the leading Columbus dailies with a request for publicity; but it has 

 seemed hardly worth while to send such notices to Cleveland, Cin- 

 cinnati and Toledo papers, as in the past. If the Academy so desires, 

 notices will next year be sent to the larger list of papers. 



A number of officers and committee members have this year been 

 prevented from carrying out their work for the Academy. Professor 

 Lamb has been compelled by ill health to give up the Vice-presidency 

 for Geology, and Professor Westgate has been acting in his place. 

 Professor Carney's new duties have taken him away from the State 

 so much of the time that it has been impossible for him to serve with 

 either the Executive Committee or the Committee on Codification of 

 the Constitution. The Secretary has also received word from Professor 

 Waite of his appointment as Captain in the Surgeon General's office and 

 his iaability to take any active part in the work of the Editorial Board 

 of the Ohio Journal of Science. And at the last moment a letter from 

 Professor Samuel R. Williams announces that he will be prevented from 

 attending the meeting because of serious illness in his household; 

 Professor Moore will be present to serve in his stead. 



The members of the Academy may be interested in two rather 

 conspicuous, but perhaps unconscious, changes in policy regarding 

 the meeting place. During the decade, 1S91-1900, all but two meetings 

 were held in Columbus; during the next decade only three meetings 

 were held in Columbus; since 1900 seven of the eight meetings (including 

 the present session) have been held in Columbus. Since 1913 no 

 invitation has been received except the cordial and generous standing 

 invitation from the State University. There can hardly be a question 

 that Columbus is the most generally convenient and desirable place 

 for the meetings of the Academy. On the other hand, it may be worth 

 careful consideration whether an occasional meeting in some other city 

 does not aid in stimulating interest in the Academy throughout the 

 State. 



Finally the Secretary wishes to raise another question of policy. 

 Is it not time for the Academy to establish a pennanent headquarters 

 in Columbus, to which all Academy mail may go, and from which all 

 Academy business may be transacted? If the time is not ripe for this 

 action, the Secretary would recommend, at least, that the new secretary 

 be elected from Columbus, to facilitate closer co-operation with the 

 Treasurer and with Mr. Reeder of the Library. Partly for this reason, 

 and partly for personal reasons, the present secretary would request 

 the Nominating Committee to omit his name from the list of nomina- 

 tions to be presented at the second business session of this meeting. 



Respectfully submitted, 



Edward L. Rice, Secretary. 



