140 Proceedings of the Ohio Academy of Science 
Report of the Committee on Election of Fellows. 
The following report of the Committee on Election of 
Fellows was accepted and ordered filed. 
May 14, 1920. 
To the Ohio Academy of Science: 
The Constitution, as amended in 1919, delegates the election of 
fellows to a joint committee consisting of the Vice-Presidents and the 
Executive Committee. Nine of the eleven votes are necessary to an 
election. 
Much of the work of the joint committee has been done by cor- 
respondence; but a meeting held this morning gave opportunity for 
free discussion. Seven members of the committee were present at this 
meeting; the other four were represented by more or less fully instructed 
proxies. The entire mode of procedure has been as follows: 
As only fellows are to be eligible to office and to membership in the: 
Executive Committee, it was agreed that all past and present Officers. 
and Executive Committee members should become fellows. These 
number fifty-six. 
Membership lists were then mailed to all members of the Committee, 
to be checked as ballots and returned to the Secretary for tabulation. 
Ten of the eleven members of the Committee voted. No member of 
the Academy received the necessary nine ballots, although two lacked 
but one vote each. The names of members receiving any votes were 
then mailed to the Committee members to serve as a list of nominations 
for consideration at this morning’s meeting. 
From this list fifty-eight fellows were elected, making the total 
number one hundred and fourteen. The fellows will be designated by 
some distinguishing mark in the next list of members published. 
Your committee believe that their work has been conservative. 
They have endeavored to guard against the election of any undesirable 
fellows; desirable candidates have undoubtedly been omitted. Such 
errors can be easily rectified by succeeding committees. 
Respectfully submitted, 
EpwaARD L. Rice, Secretary, 
For the Committee. 
Election of Officers. 
The following officers and committee members for 1920-21 
were elected by the ballot of the Academy: 
President—Mr. W. H. ALEXANDER, U. S. Weather Bureau, Columbus. 
Vice-Presidents: 
Zoology—Professor F. H. KRECKER, OhioState University, Columbus. 
Botany—Professor C..H. Oris, Western Reserve University, 
Cleveland. 
Geology—Professor W. H. Bucuer, University of Cincinnati, 
Cincinnati. 
