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The Roosevelt Game Refuge, now embracing some 15,000 
acres, was dedicated last fall and is already proving its value in 
stimulating interest and activity in the preservation of the 
native plants and animals of the region. Additional tracts have 
been secured for the state forests and these have distinct value 
as areas in which conditions will serve to perpetuate our native 
fauna and flora. The park system of Cleveland, which was 
visited with the kind guidance of Professor Fullmer, gives very 
encouraging evidence of a broad plan for the development of 
adequate park areas including some remarkably fine natural 
scenery and the preservation of natural conditions for plant 
and animal life. 
The publication of the Naturalists Guide by the Ecological 
Society of America and for which the Ohio areas have been very 
carefully listed by Dr. E. Lucy Braun, is expected in the near 
future and will make available to our members a detailed list of 
tracts now reserved or which should be made into reservations 
when possible. There is a manifest interest in this subject in 
many of the states and great progress has been made in some 
of our sister states, notably New York and Iowa, and we may 
expect a growing appreciation of its importance and efforts of 
the Academy should be continued in order that the scientific 
aspects may receive proper attention. 
This statement by the chairman of the committee was 
received as a report of progress and the committee continued. 
Report of the Committee on Legislation. 
The chairman of the Committee made an oral statement 
to the effect that in as much as the General Assembly failed to 
pass the bill (H. B. No. 400) that was before it at the time of 
our last meeting and as there has been no session of the Assem- 
bly since that time, the committee has not been able to do 
anything more than ‘‘watchful waiting.’: This statement was 
received as a report of progress and the committee continued. 
. Election of Officers. 
The following officers and committee members for 1924—25 
were elected by the ballot of the Academy. 
President—Prof. Edgar N. Transeau, Ohio State University, Columbus. 
