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However, a phase has developed to the Ohio situation which needs 
thorough consideration. The university libraries of the middle west 
have projected a Union List which is to include Nebraska, Minnesota, 
Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and the metropolitan districts 
of St. Louis and Chicago. The plans for this list have been laid by the 
H. W. Wilson Co., the estimates of printing made and the copy from 
nearly all the libraries j is ready. Consideration is now being given to 
the time limit, so the publication may proceed. 
Here are some problems for Ohio: 
(1) Shall we ask for the inclusion of the Ohio Union list in the 
proposed “‘ North Central List?” 
(2) Is the Academy ready to finance the inclusion of its list, on 
the basis of what other co-operators will pay? 
(3) If the Academy does not finance the proposition, shall we ask 
each library to finance its own contribution to such a list, or buy its 
quota of volumes? 
(4) When the “North Central List”? is published, will there be 
need for an exclusive Ohio List? 
The committee recommends that, in spite of the complication of the 
situation, work be continued on the distinctively Ohio List and that 
the relation of the Ohio proposition to that of the universities of the 
Middle West be held in abeyance until many of the details of the larger 
union list are definitely settled. 
C. W. REEDER. 
April 6, 1917. 
The following actions were voted by the Academy: 
1. That the recommendations contained in the report of 
the Committee on Catalog of Scientific Journals be adopted. 
2. That the Committee on Catalog of Scientific Journals 
be discharged, and that the work formerly done by this com- 
mittee be transferred to the Library Committee. 
Election of Officers 
From the double slate of nominations prepared by the 
Nominating Committee, the following officers for 1917-18 were 
elected by the ballot of the Academy: 
President—Professor F. L. LANDACRE, Ohio State University, 
Columbus. 
Vice-President for Zoology—Professor C. G. SHATZER, Wittenberg 
College, Springfield. 
Vice-President for Botany—Professor FREDA DETMERs, Gihso State 
University, Columbus. 
Vice-President for Geology—Professor G. F. TANS. Mt. Union College, 
Alliance. 
