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However, a phase has developed to the Ohio situation which needs 

 thorough consideration. The university libraries of the middle west 

 have projected a Union List which is to include Nebraska, Minnesota, 

 Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and the metropolitan districts 

 of St. Louis and Chicago. The plans for this list have been laid by the 

 H. W. Wilson Co., the estimates of printing made and the copy from 

 nearly all the libraries is ready. Consideration is now being given to 

 the time limit, so the publication may proceed. 



Here are some problems for Ohio: 



(1) Shall we ask for the inclusion of the Ohio Union list in the 

 proposed "North Central List?" 



(2) Is the Academy ready to finance the inclusion of its list, on 

 the basis of what other co-operators will pay? 



(3) If the Academy does not finance the proposition, shall we ask 

 each library to finance its own contribution to such a list, or buy its 

 quota of volumes? 



(4) When the "North Central List" is pubhshed, will there be 

 need for an exclusive Ohio List? 



The committee recommends that, in spite of the complication of the 

 situation, work be continued on the distinctively Ohio List and that 

 the relation of the Ohio proposition to that of the universities of the 

 Middle West be held in abeyance until many of the details of the larger 

 union list are definitelv settled. 



C. W. Reeder. 

 April 6, 1917. 



The following actions were voted by the Academy: 



1. That the recommendations contained in the report of 

 the Committee on Catalog of Scientific Journals be adopted. 



2. That the Committee on Catalog of Scientific Journals 

 be discharged, and that the work formerly done by this com- 

 mittee be transferred to the Library Committee. 



Election of Officers 



From the double slate of nominations prepared by the 

 Nominating Committee, the following officers for 1917-18 were 

 elected by the ballot of the Academy: 



President — Professor F. L. Landacre, Ohio State University, 

 Columbus. 



Vice-President for Zoology — Professor C. G. Shatzer, Wittenberg 

 College, Springfield. 



Vice-President for Botany — Professor Freda Detmers, Ohio State 

 University, Columbus. 



Vice-President for Geology — Professor G. F. Lamb, Mt. Union College, 

 Alliance. 



