176 Out1o STATE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE 
At 3:30 p. M. the Academy assembled to hear the President’s 
address on the Formation of Sandusky Bay and Cedar Point. 
This was followed by the paper by Professor Halstead on 
Mathematics and Biology. The Academy here adjourned to the 
Physics Building to hear the illustrated lecture by Professor 
D. C. Miller on Radium. 
At 7 p. mM. the Academy met in the Biological Building for 
the business meeting. 
The Academy elected Dr. Lindahl, Professor Osborn and 
Professor Wright a Committee on Nomination to report at the 
last business meeting. 
On motion of Dr. Lindahl the Secretary was instructed to 
communicate to Mr. Emerson McMillin a vote of thanks from 
the Academy for his generous support of the research work of 
the Academy. 
On motion by Professor Osborn a vote of thanks was 
extended to Professor Miller for his illustrated lecture on Radium. 
At 7:30 Pp. Mm. the Academy adjourned to the Physics Build- 
ing to hear an illustrated lecture by Professor Herrick on the 
Building Habits and Home Life of Birds. 
The Academy reconvened at 8:30 on November 26 for a 
short business meeting. The Program Committee reported that 
all authors offering titles had complied with the provision passed 
at the preceding annual meeting, namely “that no titles should 
be read before the Academy unless an abstract was in the hands 
of the committee’’ except Mrs. Houk and Professors Kellerman 
and Schaffner. The committee recommended that the first 
paper by Mrs. Houk be admitted to the program and the second 
be deferred to a later time and made no recommendation in 
regard to the papers of Professors Kellerman and Schaffner as 
they were not present. The reading of papers was then taken up. 
At 11 a. m. after the reading of papers was finished the final 
business meeting of the Academy occurred in which Professor 
Walton’s motion that the Program Committee consist of five 
members was discussed and passed. This makes the committee 
consist of one member for Zoology, one for Botany, one for 
Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics, one for Geology and 
Physiography, and one for Anthropology, Archeology and 
Ethnology, in the order named. 
The report of the Committee on Nominations was presented 
by Dr. Lindahl and is as follows: 
Rete reside act ko Sse te Pror. HERBERT OSBORN 
ist, Vice sPresident...< c:- 2.4026 Pres. C. W. DABNEY 
