274 Proceedings of the Ohio Academy of Science 
The report minus the membership list was also published in the Ohio 
Journal of Science 23 : 1-24, 1923. 
. Respectfully submitted, 
H. C. Sampson, Chairman. 
Report of the Library Committee. 
The following report of the Library Committee was received 
and ordered filed. 
March 29, 19238. 
To the Ohio Academy of Science: 
The Library Committee begs to report that all the duties devolving 
upon it have been discharged as promptly as possible. 
The sale of publications during the year amounted to $23.45. This 
amount has been turned over to the Treasurer of the Academy. 
The Proceedings of the Thirty-second Annual Meeting, 1922, were 
received from the printer on March 12, 1923. Copies were mailed 
immediately to all persons on the membership roll, and to all institutions 
on the exchange list. 
The publications which have been received on exchange have been 
added to the others previously filed in the University Library. The 
University Library would. like to see more use made of these exchanges 
and other scientific sets by the members of the Academy who are non- 
resident in Columbus. The University Library annually renews its 
offer to lend to the members of the Academy, through their home 
libraries, the scientific publications needed in their research work. 
The writer of this report desires to call the attention of the Academy 
to Section 3 in House Bill No. 400, “‘A bill relative to state recognition of 
the Ohio Academy of Science”? now before the 85th General Assembly. 
On page 2, lines 28, 29 and 30, read as follows: “All exchanges received 
shall be kept available to the citizens of the state through the Ohio 
State Library, or such other channel as may be determined.” na 
While not wanting to say anything to affect the cordial relations existing 
between the Ohio State Library and the Ohio State University Library, 
yet be it said that if an individual library is to be specified in the bill, it 
ought to be the library which is at present, and has been for eight 
years handling the exchanges of the Academy, namely, the Ohio State 
University Library. If the bill should be made to read that exchanges 
were to be kept at such a place as may be determined by the Academy, 
no objection could be made, because the question of the disposition 
of its property is a right inherent in the organization. 
Furthermore, it may not be known to the members of the Academy, 
but the facts are that the State Library and the University Library are 
dividing the field between the two institutions, whereby the technical 
and scientific literature is to be developed by the University Library. 
In accordance with this plan, it would naturally fall to the University 
Library to handle and make available any scientific literature received 
by the Academy. 
