238 Proceedings of the Ohio Academy of Science 
Report of the Committee on State Parks and Conservation. 
In an oral report of progress, the chairman of the Com- 
mittee, Professor Herbert Osborn, mentioned the great advance 
that has been made in the acquisition of protected tracts by 
the Division of Fish and Game of the State Department of 
Agriculture and by the State Forester, and emphasized the 
cordial attitude of these officers toward the permanent preser- 
vation of the native fauna and flora of these tracts. He also 
called attention to the very valuable list of Ohio areas desirable 
for preservation compiled by Dr. E. Lucy Braun, representing 
the Ecological Society of America, and urged the co-operation 
of the Academy membership in the extension of this list by the 
report of additional interesting localities. 
Director Taber, of the State Department of Agriculture, 
was invited by the committee to address the Academy, and 
spoke very interestingly of the present condition of the tracts 
owned and leased by the State as game preserves and the plans 
of the Department for their development and control. He 
expressed a keen interest in the preservation of all forms of 
native plant and animal life in these tracts and the desire that 
the Academy assist, through its Committee on State Parks and 
Conservation and its individual membership, by the sugges- 
tion of desirable tracts and control measures. 
On his own request, Professor M. M. Metcalf was excused 
from the committee, and Professor E. R. Hayhurst elected in 
his place. The committee now consists of Herbert Osborn, 
chairman, J. &. Carman, E.R: Hayhurst, F. BH. Herrckei@aies 
Shatzer, E. N. Transeau. 
The following recommendations of the committee were 
approved by the Academy: 
1. That the Committee on State Parks and Conservation be made 
a standing committee, and that the details concerning time of service 
and future elections be referred to the Executive Committee. 
2. That the Academy favors the establishment of a State Com- 
mission on Parks and Conservation, composed of one representative 
each for the Division of Fish and Game of the State Department of 
Agriculture, the Division of Forestry of the Ohio Experiment Station, 
the State Board of Public Works, the State Archeological Society, 
the State Geological Survey, and the State Board of Health, and two 
representatives for the Ohio Academy of Science—one a_ botanist 
and one a zoologist. 
