306 Proceedings of the Ohio Academy of Science 
The following Special Report on the Relations between the 
American Association for the Advancement of Science and 
The Ohio Academy of Science was received and ordered filed: 
Wooster, O., April 2, 1925. 
To the Ohio Academy of Science: 
The plans for affiliation between the American Association and the 
various state academies were made the subject of action at the St. Louis 
meeting of the Association in 1919. In January of 1920 your Treasurer 
was asked to inquire of Doctor L. O. Howard the results of this action 
and received the following reply: 
“Yours of the 6th has come. I find that your understanding of the affiliation 
matter is correct and corresponds with the action of the Council at St. Louis, with 
the exception of No. 1. Following is a transcript from the minutes of the Council 
meeting of December 29th: 
“The Committee on Affiliation of State and Local Academies reported the fol- 
lowing recommendations: 
“1. That State academies be affiliated on a financial basis that will yield the 
Association four dollars net per member. 
“9. Any State academy which concludes arrangements for affiliation within 
the first six months of 1920 may be accepted for the entire year 1920, fees 
paid to the Association before that date to be adjusted in accordance 
with the detailed plan. 
‘3. Two alternative plans are considered with respect to membership in the 
academies, namely (a) All members of the academy to affiliate with the 
Association; (b) To establish two grades of membership, of which one 
will be national, involving membership in both academy and Associa- 
tion; the other local, consisting of academy membership only. 
“4 The academies will collect joint dues and transmit the Association’s share 
to the Treasurer. 
“Voted that the report of the Committee on Affilation of State and Local > 
Academies be received and approved. 
“Vour No. 4 is all right. The collection of four dollars instead of three by 
the Association is necessitated by the new arrangement by which the Association 
pavs the journal Science three dollars for each new member. You see we must 
have something for overhead expense.’’ 
It is clear from this letter that our Academy was not altering its 
dues, but that the Association was to receive one dollar less for the sub- 
scription to “‘Science”’ from all of its affiliated State Academy members. 
That this is plainly understood as the basis of the financial arrangement 
is still further brought out in a letter dated May 21 from Dr. B. E. 
Livingston, who succeeded Dr. Howard as Permanent Secretary of the 
Association: 
‘Replying to your several letters, your ideas about the nature of the affiliation 
between the Ohio Academy of Science and the American Association for the 
Advancement of Science are quite right. I think I have everything clear now. 
We refund $1 for each member of the Academy who has paid $5 dues to the 
American Association for 1920. For each new member you are to send this office $4, 
together with his name and address and a statement of which journal he prefers. 
The journal will be ordered as soon as the remittance and data are at hand. Since 
back issues of the journals are limited, prompt action is necessary. Also, of course 
anew member would like to have his journal begin promptly. I suggest that you 
send me new members’ names and remittance for them so that they will reach here 
on Wednesday of each week. We send our list to Science every Friday. 
