4 OHIO BIOIvOGICAL SURVEY 



The Director of the Survey shall be appointed by the board of trustees 

 after nomination by the co-operative board, and his duties shall be to 

 have general executive management of the Survey, the details of co-opera- 

 tion with individuals, the direction of special assistants, and the arrange- 

 ment of papers for the board of publication. He shall also act as 

 Secretary of the co-operative board, and approve all bills paid from the 

 Survey fund. 



The publications shall consist of a series of bulletins, each to be issued 

 as promptly as possible after the completion of any piece of work. 



A series of memoirs or monographs to include the more extended 

 results of special investigations will be undertaken if the material together 

 with the support necessary for such publication becomes available. 



The contributions from the co-operating institutions and from indi- 

 viduals and any specific appropriations from the state shall constitute a 

 fund for biological survey purposes, to be drawn upon by order of the 

 director. 



From duplicate material secured in progress of the work, special 

 collections may be arranged and forwarded to such schools as may wish 

 them under regulations to be determined by the co-operative board. 

 Meetings of the co-operative board shall be on the call of the Director. 

 There shall be at least one meeting each year, ordinarily in connection 

 with the meeting of the Ohio Acadeni}^ of Science, for the purpose of 

 hearing reports and outlining the work of the ensuing year. 



Committee: L. B. Walton, Gambler O. 

 E. V,. Rice, Delaware, O. 

 February i, 191 2. Frank Carnev, Granville, O. 



In response to this outline definite acceptances were obtained from 

 the following institutions: 



Miami Universit3^ Western Reserve University 



German Wallace College Oberlin Universit}- 



Ohio Wesleyan Universit}- Kenyon College 



Wittenberg College Baldwin University 



Buchtel College Denison Universit}' 



Lake Erie College 



Favorable responses were received also from Ohio University, Otter- 

 bein, and Heidelberg University, and later acceptance from the Univer- 

 sity of Cincinnati. 



A request presented from the Committee in accordance with these 

 provisions to the Trustees of the Ohio State University was granted and 

 the plan approved at the meeting of the Board, June 191 2. vSubsequently 

 by nomination from the different representatives of the co-operative 

 institutions. Prof. Herbert Osborn was elected as director and later at a 

 meeting the representatives of the various institutions, Nov. 30, it was 

 agreed that the then representatives .should be known as the Administra- 



