Nov., 1921 ANNUAL MEE:TING — OHIO ACADEMY OF SCIENCE 



Report of Library Committee. 



A brief report for the Library Committee was prepared for 

 the meeting by Mr. Reeder; but, owing to a delay in the mail, 

 this report was not received by the secretary until after the 

 close of the meeting. The following report has since been 

 received for publication. 



March 23, 1921. 

 To the Ohio Academy of Science: 



The Library Committee begs leave to submit the following report : 



(1) The sale of publications during the year has amounted to $1295. 



(2) The Proceedings of the 30th annual meeting of the Academy 

 were published in the Ohio Journal of Science for November, 1920. 

 Reprints were received late in February and copies were mailed imme- 

 diately to all persons on the membership roll and to sixty-eight insti- 

 tutions on the exchange list. 



(3) The University Library again calls to the attention of the 

 Academy its willingness to lend to any member, through his institu- 

 tional library, any publication needed in research work. The library is 

 receiving the exchanges from the Ohio Academy and from the Ohio 

 Journal of Science, and together with its own purchases and collec- 

 tions in the scientific fields, there is available a remarkable source of 

 literature for advanced study and research. It is hoped that more use 

 will be made of these sources by the scientific men of Ohio. 



Very respectfully, 



C. W. Reeder. 



Report of the Trustees of the Research Fund. 



The following report of the Trustees of the Research Fund 

 was received and ordered filed. The financial portion of the 

 report was referred to the Auditing Committee, whose report 

 is appended. 



To the Ohio Academy of Science: 



The Trustees of the Research Fund submit the following report 

 for the period from May 12, 1920, (the date on which the last report 

 was made), to March 1, 1921. 



During this period only two payments from the fund were made : To 

 L. B. Walton, the balance of the grant made to him in 1917, for the 

 study of fresh water organisms; to Miss Elsie Jordan, for a contin- 

 uation of the work of relabeling the Harper collection of Naiades, under 

 the direction of W. H. Beecher, to whom the grant was made. 



Unexpended balances remain to the credit of A. E. Waller, for the 

 study of Ohio vegetation, and to W. H. Bucher, for aid in the making 

 of a geological map of the disturbed area in Adams County, Ohio. 



