136 Proceedings of the Ohio Academy of Science 
Report of the Trustees of the Research Fund. 
The following report of the Trustees of the Research Fund 
was received and ordered filed. The financial portion of the 
report was referred to the Auditing Committee, whose report 
is appended. 
To the Ohio Academy of Science: 
The Trustees of the Research Fund submit the following report for 
the year ending May 1, 1920: 
During the year payments have been made to the following persons 
for the purposes indicated: 
F. C. Blake: For the purchase of a specially sensitive galvanometer 
for use in an investigation already under way, and for materials pur- 
chased under previous grants for which bills had not been rendered. 
The entire cost of the galvanometer was paid from the Research Fund 
and it thus becomes the property of the Academy. It will be available 
for future use by any other member of the Academy who may need 
such an instrument in any investigation which has received the approval 
of the Trustees of the Research Fund. It is the desire and policy of the 
Trustees to give preference, as far as is possible, to grants of this kind 
where the expenditure of the money not only aids the investigator but 
also results in a valuable addition to the material resources of the 
Academy. Mh 
Paul B. Sears: To aid in the study of Ohio vegetation. 
W.H. Bucher: To aid in the making of a geological map of the 
disturbed area in Adams County, Ohio. 
L. B. Walton: For a continuation of his study of fresh water 
organisms. 
Miss Elsie Jordan: For work in relabeling the Harper collection of 
Naiades (under the direction of W. H. Bucher). 
In grants already made there are unexpended balances, due on the 
rendering of a satisfactory statement, to 
A. E. Waller: For aid in a study of Ohio vegetation; to 
L. B. Walton and W. H. Bucher: For the objects indicated above; 
and to 
L. C. Hopkins: To aid in making a collection of Pteridophytes, and 
in the determination of the water-shed of Ohio. In these last two the 
expenditure is to be mostly for the printing and distribution of circular 
letters. 
Below is a statement of receipts, expenditures, and liabilities, accord- 
ing to which there is an available balance of about four hundred dollars 
from which grants will be made upon application approved by the 
Trustees. 
Vouchers for all expenditures are submitted herewith. 
