OHIO STATE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 35 
PAPERS AND ABSTRACTS. 
SMUT INFECTION EXPERIMENTS. 
W. A. KELLERMAN AND O. E.. JENNINGS. 
This paper gave the results of a series of experiments 
on the comparative susceptibility of several smuts. It is 
published in The Ohio Naturalist. Vol. II. 
THE REVISED CATALOG OF OHIO BIRDS. 
LYNDS JONES. 
Members of the Academy will recollect that at our last 
winter meeting I spoke with no little earnestness of the great 
need of revising the catalog of Ohio birds, and they will 
also remember that at that time the chief response to the 
appeal was the information that Mr. Oliver Davie already 
occupied the field. A personal visit to Mr. Davie convinced 
me that his work was not to be a catalog of Ohio birds, 
but another of the many popular books upon the general 
subject with an Ohio setting. 1 was therefore glad to un- 
dertake the work of preparing the revised catalog when 
Professor Webster, acting for the committee which has in 
charge the distribution of the McMillin fund, offered finan- 
cial encouragement. 
As a beginning upon that work a list of the birds 
known to occur, or likely to occur within the state was pre- 
pared, printed, and distributed. From various directories: 
and personal correspondence some 200 names were secured, 
mostly of persons now living in the state, 120 of whom ex- 
pressed their willingness to cooperate with me in the work. 
Accordingly lists were sent to them. Of the 120 sent out 
58, or a little less than one half have thus far been returned. 
These 58 returned lists represent 35 counties, while my 
own work covers two other counties, making the total num- 
