INTRODUCTION 



In this initial bulletin of the Biological Survey of Ohio, it may be 

 desirable to state in brief the plan of organization and purposes of the 

 Survey, both for the sake of the record as to its inauguration and as an 

 indication of the problems which it will attempt to solve, and the services 

 it is designed to render to the state. 



The Survey is inaugurated as the result of a plan of co-operation 

 between a number of the different Colleges of the State; its origin being 

 in the Ohio Academy of Science. As a result of various discussions as 

 to the ways and means to provide for such a Survey, a committee, a year 

 ago, was appointed from members of the Ohio Academy of Sciences, and 

 this committee presented the following provisional plan, which was .sub- 

 mitted to the institutions forming the Ohio College Association. 



PROVI.SIONAL OUTLINE 



The following preliminary outline for a Biological Survey is based 

 upon suggested co-operation between the various educational and other 

 institutions in the state interested in .securing definite knowledge concern 

 ing the fauna and flora of Ohio. 



The object of the Survey will be to secure accurate and detailed 

 information as to the occurrence, distribution, and ecology of the animals, 

 and plants in Ohio for the benefit of the people in general and parlicularly 

 for those engaged in .school instruction, and to collect, identify, and dis- 

 tribute material that may be of .service in educational work. 



The co-operation propo.ses eitlier financial or .scientific support, or 

 both, from institutions, organizations, or individuals, interested in the pur- 

 pose of the survey. 



The central office and general management will be arranged in connec- 

 tion with the State University and under the official control of its trustees. 

 The co-operative board is ])lanned to consist of a representative from each 

 institution and organization agreeing to the plan of co-o]ieration and 

 contributing a membership fee of $25, such representative to be appomted 

 by the executive officer in the institution or organization. The functions 

 of the co-operative board will be to outline the policy of the Survey, 

 recommend the distribution of the work by localities and among 

 specialists, to nominate the director, and determine on such other 

 recommendations as may seem to them desirable for the success of the 

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