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later the reprints were received and mailed to persons whose names 
appear in that report on the membership roll. The report was also sent 
to the sixty-five institutions on the exchange list. 
(3) The receipt of exchanges by the Academy has been about as 
usual with a slight increase in the foreign group due to a resumption of 
near-normal transportation conditions and the clearing out of accumu- 
lations by the International Exchange Service of the Smithsonian 
Institution. 
(4) During the year a thousand cards were added to the Union 
Catalog of Scientific Periodicals by the Oberlin College Library. It is 
known that other libraries have contributions of cards ready whenever 
there is need of them, but the matter has not been pushed on account of 
the difficulty experienced in the large libraries in keeping even with 
current work on account of depleted staffs. 
(5) During the past year the University Library made loans of 
42 books to nine Ohio Colleges. It is not known whether or not the 
professors desiring these books are members of the Ohio Academy, but 
it is hoped they are. The library offers to lend to any scientist in the 
Academy, through his institutional library, any publication not needed 
for immediate use. This service ought to be developed more extensively 
and the Library stands ready to discharge its obligation to the men 
and women of the Ohio Academy who are engaged in research and 
need more book facilities than are available in their libraries. 
Respectfully submitted, 
C. W. REEDER. 
Report of the Committee on Legislation. 
The following report of the Committee on Legislation was 
received and ordered filed. The Committee was continued. 
Your Committee on Legislation is unable to report any very sub- 
stantial progress in the matter of securing state support but would 
recommend that the committee be continued or another committee 
appointed to continue the effort. Owing to the session of last winter 
being an adjourned session and averse to taking up new measures and 
also the varied questions of intense debate that developed during the 
session and the attitude of members toward the introduction of any 
new measures involving new appropriations, the time seemed inoppor- 
tune. Moreover, there are one or two points which it seems desirable 
to clear up before offering a specific form of bill. 
For the information of the members we submit the following draft 
of a bill which embodies the points it seems desirable to include. 
It may be noted that there is some question as to the form in which 
an act may best be stated which provides that the service of the Acad- 
emy may be mandatory while the obligation of the state can only 
operate during the life of an appropriation which under the constitution 
is limited to the biennial period. The committee has attempted to 
include in one bill the provision that the Academy may function as an 
advisory body for the state and also that the state shall support the 
Academy in the matter of publication and expenses. 
