234 PROCEEDINGS OF THE OHIO ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 



the Biological Club of the Ohio State University to the effect that it 

 would gladly transfer the management of the Ohio Naturalist and Jour- 

 nal of Science, now the Ohio Journal of Science, to any organization that 

 could assure the Biological Club that an efficient financial management 

 would be provided for the journal. Remembering the discussion last 

 year from the floor of the Academy to the effect that the Academy was 

 in no position at present to give such assurance, the committee decided 

 after careful discussion, to recommend to the Biological Club that a 

 new general science club be organized at the Ohio State University and 

 that this new club should assume control of the magazine until such time 

 as the Ohio Academy of Science could successfully do so. This new club 

 is now organized under the name of the Ohio State University Scientific 

 Society and is financially responsible at> present for the publication of the 

 Ohio Journal of Science. For the current year a close estimate of the 

 cost of publication is eight hundred dollars, the cost of the Naturalist in 

 late years being about four hundred and fifty dollars. 

 The committee accordingly recommends : 



1. That the present arrangement of the Academy with the Biolog- 

 ical Club of Ohio State University be continued, slightly modified, with 

 the Ohio State University Scientific Society; the modification to be that 

 one dollar of the dues paid to the Academy by each member is to go to 

 the support of the journal. This arrangement is to terminate at the re- 

 quest of either party. 



2. That the publication committee of the Ohio Academy of Science 

 is to constitute the Academy representation in the Editorial Board of the 

 Ohio Journal of Science. 



3. That a new committee of five be appointed by tlie President, 

 which shall investigate carefully possible ways and means whereby the 

 Academy can successfully take over the Ohio Journal of Science and how 

 soon this can be done, the committee to report back to the Academy at 

 its next annual meeting. This new committee should co-operate with the 

 committee on the relation of the Academy to the State. 



Respectfully sul)mitted, 



F. C. Blake, 

 Jas. S. Hine, 

 L. B. Walton, 



Coiinnilti'c. 



After an extended discussion the report was ado])ted, and 

 the incoming President was instructed to appoint tlie Committee 

 called for in the third recommendation of the report. President 

 Hubbard appointed the Committee as follows: J. Warren 

 .Smith, Chairman, Frank C'arnev. ]. S. TTine, C. C. Shatzer. F. C. 



