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The present Legislature has enacted or will probably enact a Bill 
accepting the Bryan farm near Yellow Springs, a tract of something over 
500 acres, which was given to the State for preservation as a game 
refuge, and experiment farm, and under the conditions provided in the 
present act, will doubtless furnish an additional valuable tract for the 
preservation of natural conditions. 
The transfer of a tract of fifty-seven acres, including the Harness 
Mounds from the United States Government to the State, under the 
control of the State Archeological Society, gives us another interesting 
tract as a public park. 
Failure of the National Congress to pass the bill to provide for 
national game reserves, which would have made possible the preserva- 
tion of swamp areas and other suitable breeding grounds for migratory 
fowl, makes it, of course, more desirable that the State should set aside 
a number of such tracts within our boarders for the purpose of con- 
serving wild life dependent upon such conditions. It seems therefore 
that one of the early movements of the Academy should be to secure, 
through the Fish and Game Commission or such other channel as may 
be available, certain reservations of this character. 
The waterways project now being considered by the National 
Government, which would provide a waterway from the Lake to the 
Ohio River, is a matter of very distinct interest to the members of the 
Academy, especially in reference to its features of conservation and 
utilization of water resources in the State. Such a waterway with its 
reservoir system would make some very important additions to the 
water areas and utilization, and your Committee will endeavor to keep 
in close touch with progress in this line. 
Respectfully submitted, 
HERBERT OSBORN, Chairman, 
Francis H. HERRICK, 
E. N. TRANSEAU, 
J. ERNEST CARMAN, 
C. G. SHATZER. 
Report of the Committee on Legislation. 
The following report, presented by the Committee on 
Legislation, was received as a report of progress, and the Com- 
mittee was continued. In view of the questions raised in the 
Report of the Library Committee with reference to the bill for 
State recognition of the Academy, Mr. Reeder was added to 
the Committee on Legislation. 
The Committee is able to report that a bill for the recognition of 
the Ohio Academy has been introduced in the Legislature, and two 
members of the Committee had a conference with the Committee to 
which the bill was referred. It received a very cordial consideration, 
and so far as this Committee is concerned, it appears that the bill will 
