April, 1919] Report Ohio Academy of Science 305 



Report of the Executive Committee 



The report of the Executive Committee was received as 

 follows and ordered filed. 



Delaware, Ohio, May 27, 1918. 

 To the Ohio Academy of Science: 



A single meeting of the Executive Committee has been held since 

 the last Annual Meeting — on December 8, 1917. Professors Landacre, 

 Hine, Shatzer and Rice were in attendance. Following the custom of 

 the last few years, all officers and chairmen of standing committees 

 were invited to meet with the Executive Committee, Vice-Presidents 

 Detmers and Seymour responded to this invitation. 



The place and date of the Annual Meeting were determined ; and the 

 Program Committee was requested to arrange, if possible, for field trips 

 on Saturday, June 1, and to give an increased prominence to the item 

 of demonstrations in the program for the meeting. Both suggestions 

 have borne fruit. It is now left for the Academy to prove the fruit in 

 the eating. 



There was some discussion of the propriety of the Academy paying 

 the travelling expenses of the members of the Executive Committee in 

 attending meetings and the clerical, printing and postage bills incurred 

 by members of the Program Committee in arranging the program. 

 The Executive Committee was not ready to make any formal recom- 

 mendation in this matter. 



The Secretary was authorized to have a set of the Annual Reports 

 of the Academy bound for the use of present and future secretaries. 

 (Steps have been taken by the Secretary, in conference with Mr. Reeder, 

 to carry out this action.) 



The Secretary was instructed to take up with Mr. Reeder the matter 

 of exchanges with the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, 

 Mass., and to secure, if practicable, the placing of a complete set of 

 the Proceedings in the Library of the Laboratory. (Consultation with 

 Mr. Reeder showed that the Academy had expressed its willingness to 

 supply the Laboratory with lacking numbers of the Academy pub- 

 lications, but that no reply had been received). 



The Secretary was also instructed to renew correspondence looking 

 toward the establishment of a Section for Psychology in the Academy. 

 (A questionnaire concerning the desirability of this section was mailed 

 to a number of the leading psychologists of the State; the consensus of 

 opinion was strongh?- in favor of the establishment of the section, but 

 equally strongly against attempting this action at this time, when the 

 psychologists are so generally in national service). 



In view of the action of the last Annual Meeting, looking toward 

 amendment, the Executive Committee has postponed the re-printing 

 of the Constitution and By-Laws ordered by the Academy. 



The question was raised by several members of the Academy whether 

 war conditions made it desirable to omit this year's Annual Meeting. 

 This question was carefully considered by the Executive Committee by 

 correspondence. The practically unanimous decision was that the 

 demand of patriotism was for holding the meeting rather than for 

 omitting it, even if the attendance might be materially decreased. 



