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Academy in its early years and was elected as third President of the 
Academy in 1894; during all of the time of his connection with the 
Experiment Station at Wooster he was very active in Academy work, 
presenting many papers and taking an active interest in discussions. 
He was ex-President of the Association of Economic Entomology, 
ex-President of the Society of Entomology at Washington, D. C., 
ex-President of the National Geographical Society, ex-President of the 
American Association of Naturalists, and an honorary member of many 
other scientific associations and societies of the country. His contribu- 
tions to scientific publications, have been of special interest to scientists 
from all parts of the world; and in this way he made himself one of the 
most important men in the service of the government. 
Professor John Royer died at Bradford, Ohio, October 18, 1915. 
He was born January 31, 1845. 
Professor Royer was one of the early educators in Ohio, having 
spent more than forty years of his life as a teacher. He taught in the 
schools of Ansonia, Gettysburg, Versailles and Pleasant Hill, and was 
the first man to receive a certificate as a teacher in Darke County. 
Professor Royer was the publisher of many books. Royer’s Mental 
Arithmetic had a wide circulation, more than 120,000 of these books 
having been sold. 
He also published Royer’s Geography, which had quite a sale, as 
well as Royer’s Course in English. 
At one time Prof. Royer was editor of The School Visitor, which was 
published at Columbus and at Versailles, Ohio. He afterwards sold 
his interest in this publication to The Ohio Teachers Magazine, with 
which it was merged. 
Professor Royer spent the last ten years of his life in retirement. 
Wm. C. Mitts, 
Joun H. SCHAFFNER, 
J. S. Hine. 
Report of the Auditing Committee. 
The Auditing Committee presented the following report, 
which was accepted and ordered filed. 
April 21, 1916. 
The committee appointed by the Ohio Academy of Science to audit 
the books of the Treasurer, has examined the accounts and finds them 
as reported. 
The committee appointed by the Ohio Academy of Science to audit 
the books of the Treasurer of the Emerson McMillin Research Fund, 
has examined the accounts and finds them as reported. 
Respectfully, 
C. G. SHATZER, 
Wittiam R. LAZENBY. 
die meeting adjourned without determining the place of 
the next meeting. 
