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After extended discussion, the Academy took the following 
actions: 
1. That the Committee on the Relation of the Academy 
to the Ohio Journal of Science be instructed to formulate more 
definitely the two plans, proposed respectively in the majority 
and minority reports, and to submit both to the membership 
of the Academy for an expression of opinion, this to be con- 
sidered not as a formal ballot, but merely as a guide in the 
further consideration of the question by the next Annual 
Meeting. 
2. That the Academy request the appointment upon the 
Editorial Board of the Journal of one representative from each 
organized section of the Academy. (Note—The Secretary has 
received notice of the cordial agreement of the management of 
' the Journal to this request.) 
3. That the detailed arrangements for the coming year be 
referred to the Executive Committee with power. 
No formal report was presented by the Committee on 
Legislation. The Committee was continued. 
Report of Committee on Catalog of Scientific Journals. 
The following report was presented by Mr. Reeder, of the 
Ohio State University Library, for the Committee on Catalog 
of Scientific Journals. The report was received and ordered 
filed and the Committee continued to carry on the work. 
April 21, 1916. 
To the Ohio Academy of Science: 
The Committee on the Union Catalog of Scientific Periodicals begs 
leave to submit the following report: 
At a meeting held during the sessions of the American Association 
for the Advancement of Science, at the Ohio State University, December, 
1915, it was decided to co-operate with the College Section of the Ohio 
Library Association in the preparation, not of a purely scientific catalog, 
but in a catalog of all periodical sets in Ohio Libraries. The College 
Section of the Library Association, at its annual meeting in October, 
1915, appointed a committee consisting of Messrs. Miller (Ohio Wes- 
leyan), Read (Cincinnati), and Reeder (Ohio State), to begin the 
preparation of a Union Catalog which would be of assistance to the 
Universities and Colleges in handling requests for the inter-library loan 
of books and volumes of sets. The Committee of the Academy felt that 
such a Union Catalog, if complete, would include the scientific and 
technical sets, and therefore duplicate the catalog planned by the 
Academy. It was decided that co-operation in this undertaking was 
