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powered to arrange a field meeting for the section of science which he 

 represents in April or May, If'lo. It is evident that cooperation of two or 

 more sections is possible. 



4. The committee feels unable to take the responsibility .of recom- 

 mending as to change of date of meeting. There are varied and to some 

 extent conflicting interests to be considered ; and the committee recom- 

 mends that at the present business session fifteen minutes be given to the 

 discussion of this question, and, if the matter is still in doubt, that a refer- 

 endum of the entire membership be taken by mail. 

 Respectfully submitted, 



F. C. Waite, Chairman. 



\'oted that the Secretary be authorized to revise and reprint 

 the circular of information concerning the scope of the Academy. 



Voted that the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting, November 

 191 5, be celebrated as the Quarter Centennial Anniversary of the 

 Academy, and that the details of the celebration be referred to 

 the Executive Committee. 



\^oted that an informal ballot be taken on the question of 

 the change of date of the annual meeting from Thanksgiving to 

 Easter ; also that the Executive Committee be instructed to 

 canvass the sentiment of the entire membership of the Academy 

 and to report at the next Annual Meeting, this action to be con- 

 sidered as notice of proposed amendment of the Constitution. 

 Informal vote showed twenty-seven members favoring change 

 and seven opposing change. 



Voted that each vice-president be authorized to arrange for 

 a sectional field meeting in the spring of 191 5. 



The following report was presented by the Special Com- 

 mittee on the Financial Management of the Ohio Naturalist. 



Report of Couunittee on Financial Management of the "Ohio 

 Naturalist and Journal of Science" 



The Committee recommends that 



1. The Academy ask the Biological Club to consider under what 

 conditions they would be willing to transfer to the Academy the financial 

 control and publication of the Ohio Journal of Science. 



2. A committee of three be appointed at this meeting (to act in 

 case of a favorable report from the Biological Club) to mvcstigate the 



