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The sale of publications during the year amounted to $37.97. This 
amount has been turned over to the Treasurer of the Academy. 
The Proceedings of the Thirty-third Annual Meeting, 1923, were 
received from the printer in December and copies were mailed to all 
members of the Academy and to the exchanges early in the year 1924. 
The publications received by the Academy on exchange have been 
added to the sets filed in the University Library. The scientific sections 
of the library have been increased annually by the purchase of many 
important sets and the hope is expressed that more and more the 
University Library will serve as the center of scholarly research by 
members of the Academy. 
Respectfully submitted, 
C. W. REEDER, 
For the Library Committee. 
Report of the Trustees of the Research Fund. 
The Trustees reported, orally, that owing to the very recent 
death of their Chairman, Dr. T. C. Mendenhall, who had full 
charge of the books and records pertaining to the work of the 
Board of Trustees and usually prepared the report, it had been 
impossible for the other members to prepare a written report in 
time for this meeting, or to work out the details of the plan 
recommended by Dr. Mendenhall and endorsed by the Acad- 
emy at the last Annual Meeting (see page 282, Proceedings, 
Thirty-third Annual Meeting) regarding the investment of 
the Research Fund and the use of the income therefrom. The 
Board requested another year in which to prepare a report. 
The request was granted. 
A preliminary examination of the bank accounts, made soon 
after the April, 1924, meeting of the Academy, shows the fol- 
lowing: Bills to the amount of $126.36 were paid subsequent to 
April 1, 1923, and additions from interest on bonds amounting 
to $27.62 have been credited, leaving a cash balance of $724.82, 
or a total resource with bonds of $1,324.82.) 
In this connection the Secretary read the following letter 
written by Dr. Mendenhall only three days before his death: 
RAvENNA, O., March 19, 1924. 
My Dear Mr. ALEXANDER: 
Yours of the 17th has reached me together with another communi- 
cation from you of an earlier date, which I found awaiting me on my 
arrival from Columbus on last Saturday night. You are perhaps by this 
time aware that I have been in the City of Columbus for the last two 
weeks, the victim of the ingenuity and indefatigable zeal of the doctors, 
