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SUMMER MEETING 1ogo0. 
The meeting at Put-in-Bay, June 26-28, was carried 
out in the main in accordance with the program published 
June 18. About thirty members were on the island, but 
several of them spent the whole time at Hotel Victory, 
where the State Teachers’ Association was in session. 
Rattlesnake Island was visited Tuesday afternoon and Mid- 
dle Bass Wednesday forenoon, the lake being too rough at 
that time for the launch to reach Marblehead or Kelley's 
Is!and. 
At the meeting at the Cincinnati Club House Tuesday 
evening twelve new members were elected and communi- 
cations from Past Presidents G. Frederick Wright,in China, 
EK. W. Claypole, in Pasadena, California, and Albert A. 
Wright, in Clifton Springs, New York, were presented in 
brief. The Academy’s success in inducing the recent legis- 
lature to cooperate with the U. S. Geological Survey in 
undertaking a topographic survey of the entire state was 
mentioned in connection with the name of A. A. Wright, 
the prime mover and energetic leader in what the secretary 
considered the most important achievement of the Ohio 
Academy thus far. 
Bo) MOSsELEY, 
Secretary. 
IN MEMORIAM. 
EDWARD ORTON. 
In the death of Edward Orton, teacher and scientist, 
for many years State Geologist of Ohio, formerly President 
of the Ohio State University and intimately connected with 
the development of that institution, who also honored the 
Ohio State Academy of Science by accepting its presidency 
for the brief term customary in our organization, we in 
common with scientists through the United States acknowl- 
edge ourselves heavy sufferers. 
