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paid. No member of the Ohio Academy of Science, while serving on any such 

 committee, shall be eligible for expert service under advice from said committee 

 for which compensation from the state is received. 



Section 3. One copy of the "Proceedings of the Academy" shall be dis- 

 tributed to each public library and museum, university, college, normal schools, 

 and first grade high school in the state, and one copy of each number of its official 

 organ, "The Ohio Journal of Science," shall be distributed to each university 

 and college in the state. All exchanges received shall be kept available to the 

 citizens of the state through the library of The Ohio State University, or such 

 other channel as may be determined. 



Section 4. The secretary of the Ohio Academy of Science shall be a person 

 well suited by training and experience to perform his duties and may be paid from 

 state funds. 



Section 5. The legislature shall make such appropriations from year to 

 year as may be necessary to print the official publications of said Academy and to 

 carry out the other provisions of this act. 



Report of Committee on Preservation of Wild Life 

 of State. 



In addition to an oral report by the chairman concerning 

 the conservation work already accomplished in Ohio and other 

 states, the Committee presented the following formal recom- 

 mendations. The recommendations were adopted by the 

 Academy, and the Committee continued under the changed 

 name suggested: Committee on State Parks and Conservation. 



The Committee on Preservation of Wild Life of State would 

 recommend : 



(1) That the present Committee be continued as a Coinmittee on 

 State Parks and Conservation, to study the various problems involved 

 and to report a matured plan for further action by the Academy. 



(2) That all members co-operate in listing suitable tracts for use 

 as state parks, bird reserves, and reservations for the permanent 

 preservation of areas possessing scenic, geologic, or biologic interest. 



(3) That the committee proceed to secure co-operation with exist- 

 ing organizations in the preservation of natural conditions in the state 

 forests, game refuges, state controlled tracts, and other areas where 

 such co-operation is possible. 



Herbert Osborn, 

 J. Ernest Carman, 

 Francis H. Herrick, 

 C. G. Shatzer, 

 E. N. Transeau, 

 Maynard M. Metcalf, 

 Committee. 



Report of Committee o?i Election of Fellows. 



The following report of the Committee on Election of 

 Fellows was accepted and ordered filed: 



