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sheet record has been made of the collections of the Academy as they 

 stood at the time of transfer. As opportmiity presented, the University 

 Library has taken these sets and checked them. If needed in the 

 Library, these sets, or individual items, have been added; if not needed, 

 the material has been added to the duplicate collections for exchange 

 purposes. In case any binding has been done, the volumes have been 

 marked with the special book-plate which the Academy authorized at 

 its last meeting. If it had not been for the absence of the Librarian 

 on war work, this process of incorporation would have been completed 

 by this date, but a portion of it will have to go over into this coming 

 year. 



In connection with the general policy of increasing exchanges, the 

 University Library has been able to add new names to the list of the 

 Academy. The combination of the Ohio Journal of Science, the 

 Bulletins of the Ohio Biological Survey and the Proceedings of the Ohio 

 Academy of Science makes a series of sets that command attention and 

 of sufficient value to give a good basis for arranging tenns of exchange. 

 During the year several libraries and societies have completed their 

 sets of the Special Papers and Annual Reports of the Academy on an 

 exchange basis. 



The only publication issued by the Academy during the year was 

 the Annual Report of the Twenty-seventh Meeting, April 6 and 7, 1917. 

 This report was inailed to the membership list as printed in that report 

 and to all exchanges on the list. 



The sale of publications during the year amounted to $24.35. This 

 sum has been turned over to the Treasurer. 



In accordance with the recommendation of the Executive Com- 

 mittee, a complete set of Annual Reports Nos. 1-25, have been bound 

 for use of the Secretary. 



At the last meeting of the Academy the Committee on Catalog of 

 Scientific Journals was discharged and the work turned over to the 

 Library Committee. This proposition stands today about in the same 

 situation as at the time of the last report, with two exceptions: (1) 

 Oberlin College has added about 3,000 cards to the Catalog during the 

 year; and (2) the Catalog itself has been placed in order and now 

 occupies ten (10) trays in the catalog in the University Library. 



C. W. Reeder. 



Report of the Committee on Legislation 



The following report of the Committee on Legislation, 



presented by the chairman, Dr. Mendenhall, was received 



and ordered filed. 



In presenting what may be considered as a preliminary report or 

 what may be considered as a report of progress your committee regrets 

 to say that circumstances have made it impracticable to meet for 

 thorough discussion of the questions that might arise and that therefore 

 the suggestions offered must be considered as tentative and that sug- 

 gestions or instructions along any of the lines mentioned will be 



