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place, 14 of the 25 annual meetings have Ijeen held in Columbus, 2 

 in Granville, 2 in Cincinnati, 2 in Cleveland, one each in Oxford, 

 Delaware, Akron and Oberlin. 



Summer meetings have been held in well selected places in 

 the following counties : Summit, Hocking, Licking, Erie, Butler, 

 Knox, Montgomery, Franklin, Ottawa, and Wayne. Several of 

 these were joint meetings with other orgainzations. For example, 

 the meeting in Butler County w^as in connection with the Indiana 

 Academy of Science; in Franklin County the summer of 1899, 

 with the A. A. A. S. The meeting at Put-in-Bay and one at 

 Sandusky with the Ohio State Teachers' Association. These 

 delightful summer meetings were held each year for the first 

 ten years of the life of the Academy. For some reason, un- 

 known to me, they then ceased. Would it not be well to renew 

 them ? As summer schools are now held at many points in Ohio, 

 it might be advisable to arrange a meeting of a day or two with 

 the scientific departments of some one of these schools. 



The papers presented during the 2^ years number 1 124, or an 

 average of 45 for each meeting. The range in number is from 

 10, read at the first meeting to 64 read at the fifteenth. At the 

 twenty-third meeting the numl)er was 61 and at the twentv- 

 fourth it was 58. 



Cloud and sunshine, joy and grief are common contrasts in 

 our life. We experienced these contrasts at the eighth annual 

 meeting. The first serious break in the ranks of our membership, 

 had then occurred. Two of our oldest members w^ere missing. 

 We grieved that Dr. Kellicott had been stricken by death, and 

 that Dr. Claypole had left Ohio to spend the remainder of his 

 days in the more genial climate of California. 



At the same time we rejoiced that one who had already 

 proven himself a friend, should modestly announce that he had 

 given the Academy $250, to be expended in ways best suited 

 to promote scientific research, with the further statement that 

 such a sum might be given annually, provided the use made of 

 the money was satisfactory, and it proved convenient for the 

 donor to spare it. We may assume that these conditions have 

 been fulfilled, for from that day to this, or for eighteen successive 



