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paid. No member of the Ohio Academy of Science, while serving on any such 
committee, shall be eligible for expert service under advice from said committee 
for which compensation from the state is received. 
SECTION 3. One copy of the ‘Proceedings of the Academy’’ shall be dis- 
tributed to each public library and museum, university, college, normal schools, 
and first grade high school in the state, and one copy of each number of its official 
organ, ‘‘The Ohio Journal of Science,’’ shall be distributed to each university 
and college in the state. All exchanges received shall be kept available to the 
citizens of the state through the library of The Ohio State University, or such 
other channel as may be determined. 
SECTION 4. The secretary of the Ohio Academy of Science shall be a person 
well suited by training and experience to perform his duties and may be paid from 
state funds. 
Section 5. The legislature shall make such appropriations from year to 
year as may be necessary to print the official publications of said Academy and to 
carry out the other provisions of this act. 
Report of Committee on Preservation of Wild Life 
of State. 
In addition to an oral report by the chairman concerning 
the conservation work already accomplished in Ohio and other 
states, the Committee presented the following formal recom- 
mendations. The recommendations were adopted by the 
Academy, and the Committee continued under the changed 
name suggested: Committee on State Parks and Conservation. 
The Committee on Preservation of Wild Life of State would 
recommend: 
(1) That the present Committee be continued as a Committee on 
State Parks and Conservation, to study the various problems involved 
and to report a matured plan for further action by the Academy. 
(2) That all members co-operate in listing suitable tracts for use 
as state parks, bird reserves, and reservations for the permanent 
preservation of areas possessing scenic, geologic, or biologic interest. 
(3) That the committee proceed to secure co-operation with exist- 
ing organizations in the preservation of natural conditions in the state 
forests, game refuges, state controlled tracts, and other areas where 
such co-operation is possible. 
HERBERT OSBORN, 
J. ERNEST CARMAN, 
Francis H. HERRICK, 
C. G. SHATZER, 
E. N. TRANSEAU, 
MaynarpD M. METCALF, 
Committee. 
Report of Commuttee on Election of Fellows. 
The following report of the Committee on Election of 
Fellows was accepted and ordered filed: 
