REPORT OF THE ELEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING 
OF THE 
Ohio State Academy of Science. 
ANNUAL MEETING. 
The eleventh annual meeting was held at the Ohio 
State University, Columbus, November 29 and 30, 1901. 
This being a month earlier than the usual time, the execu- 
tive committee were gratified to find the attendance good 
as usual, though a few others might have planned their 
‘work so as to be present, had the date been announced 
earlier in the year. The papers read were, for the most 
part, not technical, but interesting to all who heard them. 
The joint session Friday evening of the Academy of Science 
and the Modern Language Association of Ohio was both 
instructive and interesting, to members and guests. 
Profesor Eggers, secretary of the Modern Language 
Association, stated that the Association had tried different 
times of the year for its annual meetings, but had 
found Thanksgiving week decidedly the most  suit- 
able. The prevailing sentiment among members of 
the Academy was also in favor of holding its meetings then. 
The principal objections raised were the meetings at that 
time of teachers’ associations in other parts of the state and 
the detention of some members at home by college duties. 
“In view of the fact that the attendance at the field 
meetings for the last six years had been small except when 
held in connection with the meeting of some other associa- 
tion” the secretary recommended “that we abandon the 
policy of holding a field meeting every year and, without 
fixing a longer period, leave the matter to be decided each 
year by the executive committee.” The Academy voted to 
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