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The Secretary was requested and authorized to make such arrange- 
ments as might seem wise in the establishing of temporary headquarters 
for the visiting members of the Ohio Academy at the annual meeting of 
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science to be held 
in Cincinnati the latter part of December, 1923. This action was very 
satisfactorily carried out through the generous cooperation of members 
of the Academy living in Cincinnati. 
At this meeting of the committee it was decided to accept the invi- 
tation of the Ohio State University to hold the Thirty-fourth Annual 
Meeting of the Academy at that institution. It was also agreed that 
the time should be ‘‘very near Easter’’ but the exact date was left 
for the Secretary to determine after some further investigations. 
A second meeting of the Executive Committee was held in Colum- 
bus at the office of the Secretary last evening with all members present. 
At this meeting forty applications for membership in the Academy 
were approved subject to final ratification by the Academy. 
The Secretary placed before the committee a cordial invitation from 
the Faculty of the College of Wooster, heartily seconded by the staff of 
the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, to hold the next Annual 
Meeting of the Academy at Wooster. The committee decided to refer 
the invitation to the Academy for such action as it may see fit to take. 
The following letter from Dr. Burton E. Livingston, Permanent 
Secretary, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 
written in reply to a letter inviting Dr. Livingston or some other officer 
of the A. A. A. S. to be present at the Annual Meeting of this Academy, 
was laid before the committee, viz.: 
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 18, 1924. 
DEAR MR. ALEXANDER:—I have your letter of March 10 and have read it with 
much interest. It is the plan of the American Association to have, whenever 
possible, a representative of the Association in attendance at each annual meeting 
of the affiliated academies. This was decided at the Cincinnati meeting. But 
the whole question of the arrangements with affiliated academies has recently 
come up again for discussion and we think it will be best not to begin naming 
official representatives for academy meetings till the Executive Committee has 
had opportunity to define the attitude of the Association in regard to affiliated 
academies in a manner clearer than has thus far been done. We are making a 
serious study of the whole problem of academy affiliation and it may be possible 
that some improvements can be introduced. When we do begin to send rep- 
resentatives to the academy meetings, those representatives should naturally 
have the whole matter clearly in mind, and that could not be the case at present. 
There will doubtless be important matters to be discussed with the several 
academies. 
I hope you will understand from this why I feel that we should postpone till 
a later time our beginning to name official representatives for the academy 
meetings. 
I should like nothing better than to come to your meeting myself and I hope 
to be able to do so next year, perhaps. 
Thanking you, and with all good wishes for the great success of your meeting, 
Yours very sincerely, 
Burton E. LIVINGSTON, 
Permanent Secretary. 
