Twenty-ninth Annual Meeting 107 
The Trustees announce that grants concerning which no reports 
of progress have been received will be cancelled at the end of the year. 
Regarding the grant of $100.00 to Professor Bucher, it may be 
desirable to explain that it was made for the purpose of relabelling a 
valuable and extensive collection of Naiades made by the late George 
W. Harper, of Cincinnati, and by him donated to the University of 
Cincinnati. All had been carefully labelled as to locality, but the 
labels were old, faded and many of them loose, so that there was great 
danger of their being hopelessly disarranged and permanently lost. 
The grant of a portion of the research fund to secure the preservation 
of the collection is something of a departure from the usual practice, 
but the object to be attained seemed to justify it. It was agreed on 
the part of the Cincinnati authorities that. the collection should forever 
be available for study by any member of the Academy whose qualifica- 
tions for such work were properly attested by its officers. 
T. C. MENDENHALL, Chairman, 
HERBERT OSBORN. 
May 30, 1919. 
The financial portion of the report of the Trustees of the Research 
Fund has been audited and found correct. 
RAYMOND C. OSBURN, 
Joun H. SCHAFFNER, 
Auditing Committee. 
Report of the Library Committee 
For the Library Committee, Mr. Reeder, of the Ohio State 
University Library, presented the following report, which was 
received and ordered filed. 
May 29, 1919. 
To the Ohio Academy of Science: 
The Library Committee begs leave to submit the following report: 
(1) The sales of publications during the year amounted to $15.90. 
This sum has been turned over to the Treasurer. 
(2) Printed copies of the Annual Report of the Twenty-eighth 
Meeting, 1918, were received about two weeks ago, and copies have been 
mailed to all persons on the membership list as printed in that report, 
and to all institutions, societies and libraries on the exchange list. 
(3) War conditions affected the exchange situation of the Academy 
as it did of all scientific organizations. Fewer publications were issued 
and transportation difficulties hindered their distribution. However, 
since the resumption of near-peace conditions, the foreign societies are 
informing us that they are now ready to resume exchange relations. 
Institutions in this country are active in completing files and more 
parts of the Academy’s Proceedings have been sent out for this purpose 
than usual. Several of these libraries have been restored to the exchange 
mailing list. 
