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Suggestions from members as to the best manner in which this can 
be accomplished will be welcomed by the committee if continued. 
A BILI. 
To provide for the publication of the Proceedings of the Ohio Academy 
of Science and Support and Service of the Academy. 
Be it Enacted by the Eighty-third General Assembly of the State of Ohio: 
SECTION 1. That there is hereby appropriated the sum of $2,000 
per annum during the biennium for the Ohio Academy of Science for the 
support of its publications and for the payment of expenses of the 
society which may include the salary of a secretary. 
Sec. 2. The Proceedings of the Academy, aside from its regular dis- 
tribution to members and exchanges, shall be distributed one copy to 
each public library and to each university, college and first grade high 
school in the state. The exchanges received shall be kept available to 
the citizens of the state through the library of the State University or 
such other channel as may be determined. 
Sec. 3. The services of the Academy shall be available to the state 
or any of its officers in any matter in which the consideration of scientific 
facts, policies or problems is involved, and the officers of the state may 
call upon the Academy through its properly elected officers or com- 
mittees appointed by its officers for such consultation and advice as 
may be of service to them in their duties, the members of such com- 
mittees to receive no compensation for this service further than neces- 
sary expenses of travel or other outlay in the performance of their 
duty and no member of the Academy while serving as a member on such 
committee shall be eligible for expert service involving compensation 
from the state. The President of the Academy shall serve as the medium 
of communication with the Academy. 
Respectfully submitted, 
HERBERT OSBORN, 
T. C. MENDENHALL, 
EDWARD L. RICE. 
Report of the Commuttee on War Roll. 
The following report of the Committee on War Roll was 
received and ordered filed. The Committee was discharged. 
To the Ohio Academy of Science: 
The committee appointed a year ago to continue the collection of 
data concerning the war record of Academy members has held no meeting 
during the year; but a call for the desired information was included this 
year, as last, in the preliminary notice of the Annual Meeting. Forty 
members responded to this call. The data collected are in the possession 
of the Secretary, and will be transferred for permanent record to the 
cards of the Secretary’s membership catalog. 
Respectfully submitted, 
EpwWARD L. Rice, Secretary, . 
For the Committee. 
