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sheet record has been made of the collections of the Academy as they 
stood at the time of transfer. As opportunity presented, the University 
Library has taken these sets and checked them. If needed in the 
Library, these sets, or individual items, have been added; if not needed, 
the material has been added to the duplicate collections for exchange 
purposes. In case any binding ‘has been done, the volumes have been 
marked with the special book-plate which the Academy authorized at 
its last meeting. If it had not been for the absence of the Librarian 
on war work, this process of incorporation would have been completed 
by this date, but a portion of it will have to go over into this coming 
year. 
In connection with the general policy of increasing exchanges, the 
University Library has been able to add new names to the list of the 
Academy. The combination of the Ohio Journal of Science, the 
Bulletins of the Ohio Biological Survey and the Proceedings of the Ohio 
Academy of Science makes a series of sets that command attention and 
of sufficient value to give a good basis for arranging terms of exchange. 
During the year several libraries and societies have completed their 
sets of the Special Papers and Annual Reports of the Academy on an 
exchange basis. 
The only publication issued by the Academy during the year was 
the Annual Report of the Twenty-seventh Meeting, April 6 and 7, 1917. 
This report was mailed to the membership list as printed in that report 
and to all exchanges on the list. 
The sale of publications during the year amounted to $24.35. This 
sum has been turned over to the Treasurer. 
In accordance with the recommendation of the Executive Com- 
mittee, a complete set of Annual Reports Nos. 1-25, have been bound 
for use of the Secretary. 
At the last meeting of the Academy the Committee on Catalog of 
Scientific Journals was discharged and the work turned over to the 
Library Committee. This proposition stands today about in the same 
situation as at the time of the last report, with two exceptions: (1) 
Oberlin College has added about 3,000 cards to the Catalog during the 
year; and (2) the Catalog itself has been placed in order and now: 
occupies ten (10) trays in the catalog in the University Library. 
C. W. REEDER. 
Report of the Committee on Legislation 
The following report of the Committee on Legislation, 
presented by the chairman, Dr. Mendenhall, was received 
and ordered filed. 
In presenting what may be considered as a preliminary report or 
what may be considered as a report of progress your committee regrets 
to say that circumstances have made it impracticable to meet for’ 
thorough discussion of the questions that might arise and that therefore 
the suggestions offered must be considered as tentative and that sug- 
gestions or instructions along any of the lines mentioned will be 
