Twenty-eighth Annual Meeting 73 
“Owing to a necessary reduction in the size of the journal, it has 
been very much overcrowded this year and it has seemed impossible 
to find space for the report. I hope that the reduction in the size of 
Science is only temporary and that you will be so kind as to send me 
the report of next year’s meeting.” 
The report will be prepared in case its publication is assured. 
Notices of the Twenty-eighth Annual Meeting have been sent to 
the leading Columbus dailies with a request for publicity; but it has 
seemed hardly worth while to send such notices to Cleveland, Cin- 
cinnati and Toledo papers, as in the past. If the Academy so desires, 
notices will next year be sent to the larger list of papers. 
A number of officers and committee members have this year been 
prevented from carrying out their work for the Academy. Professor 
Lamb has been compelled by ill health to give up the Vice-presidency 
for Geology, and Professor Westgate has been acting in his place. 
Professor Carney’s new duties have taken him away from the State 
so much of the time that it has been impossible for him to serve with 
either the Executive Committee or the Committee on Codification of 
the Constitution. The Secretary has also received word from Professor 
Waite of his appointment as Captain in the Surgeon General’s office and 
his inability to take any active part in the work of the Editorial Board 
of the Ohio Journal of Science. And at the last moment a letter from 
Professor Samuel R. Williams announces that he will be prevented from 
attending the meeting because of serious illness in his household; 
Professor Moore will be present to serve in his stead. 
The members of the Academy may be interested in two rather 
conspicuous, but perhaps unconscious, changes in policy regarding 
the meeting place. During the decade, 1891-1900, all but two meetings 
were held in Columbus; during the next decade only three meetings 
were held in Columbus; since 1900 seven of the eight meetings (including 
the present session) have been held in Columbus. Since 1913 no 
invitation has been received except the cordial and generous standing 
invitation from the State University. There can hardly be a question 
that Columbus is the most generally convenient and desirable place 
for the meetings of the Academy. On the other hand, it may be worth 
careful consideration whether an occasional meeting in some other city 
does not aid in stimulating interest in the Academy throughout the 
State. 
Finally the Secretary wishes to raise another question of policy. 
Is it not time for the Academy to establish a permanent headquarters 
in Columbus, to which all Academy mail may go, and from which all 
Academy business may be transacted? If the time is not ripe for this 
action, the Secretary would recommend, at least, that the new secretary 
be elected from Columbus, to facilitate closer co-operation with the 
Treasurer and with Mr. Reeder of the Library. Partly for this reason, 
and partly for personal reasons, the present secretary would request 
the Nominating Committee to omit his name from the list of nomina- 
tions to be presented at the second business session of this meeting. 
Respectfully submitted, 
Epwarbp L. Rice, Secretary. 
