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appeal for individual help for the Journal from persons interested in 
its welfare and for an increased subsidy from the Ohio State University 
have both been suggested. No definite action has been taken on these 
suggestions as yet. 
A. E. WALLER, Treasurer. 
The financial portion of the above report has been examined and 
found correct. 
M. E. STICKNEY, 
F. L. LANDACRE, 
Auditing Committee. 
Report of the Executive Committee. 
The report of the Executive Committee was received as 
follows and ordered filed. 
April 14, 1922. 
To the Ohio Academy of Science: 
The Executive Committee has met twice since the last Annual 
Meeting of the Academy. At the first meeting, December 17, Messrs. 
R. C. Osburn, Waller, Alexander and Rice were present, with Professor 
Herbert Osborn as guest; at the second meeting, last evening, all 
members of the Committee were in attendance. Several matters of 
business have also been handled through correspondence. 
That the date of the Annual Meeting was set for April 14 and 15, 
in Columbus, is already sufficiently well known. 
Dean George F. Arps was appointed Vice-President for Psychology, 
to succeed Professor Rudolph Pintner, resigned. 
Twenty-nine applications for membership have been approved 
during the year, subject to ratification by the present meeting. 
A communication was received from Arthur MacDonald, under 
date of October 11, 1921, urging the adoption of a resolution calling 
upon Congress to concentrate ‘‘the scientific bureaus of the Government 
under the jurisdiction of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian 
Institution, with the view to developing Government science to the 
highest possible efficiency, by affording scientific workers permanent 
tenure of office, greater freedom in investigation, non-interference of 
politics, and adequate salaries.” Your Committee deemed it unwise 
to commit the Academy to this policy. 
_ The Committee recommends that the Academy take action urging 
upon the colleges of Ohio the desirability of a uniform spring vacation, 
to facilitate for instructors the attendance upon the meetings of the 
Academy and other professional societies composed wholly or in con- 
siderable part of college men. 
The Committee recommends the amendment of Chapter 1, Section 
1, of the By-laws by the addition of the clause: ‘‘members who have 
paid regular dues in the Academy for twenty-five years shall also 
be ‘classed as life members, and shall be relieved of further financial 
obligations. ”’ 
