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and shall have charge of its distribution under direction of the Executive 
Committee. The Secretary shall also be chairman of the Program 
Committee as constituted in Section 4. 
12. Treasurer. The Treasurer shall have the custody of all funds 
of the Academy. He shall keep an account of receipts and disbursements 
in detail, and this account shall be audited as hereinafter provided. 
13. Duties of Executive Committee. The Executive Committee is 
clothed with executive authority and with legislative powers of the 
Academy in the intervals between the regular annual meetings. No 
extraordinary act of the committee shall, however, remain in force 
beyond the next annual meeting unless ratified by the Academy. The 
Executive Committee shall reeeive nominations for membership and 
on approval shall submit such nominations to the Academy for action. 
It shall have the power to fill vacancies ad interim in any of the offices 
of the Academy. 
14. Duties of Publication Committee. The Publication Committee 
shall have charge of the preparation and publication of the Annual 
Report and of such other papers as may be considered by es desirable 
to have printed. 
15. Duties of Trustees of Research Fund. The Trustees of the 
Research Fund shall be three in number. They shall have charge of the 
allotment and distribution of the income or of the principal of the 
Research Fund. 
16. Duties of Library Committee. The Library Committee shall 
advise with the Librarians of The Ohio State University on all questions 
arising in connection with the management of the Library of the Ohio 
Academy of Science, deposited with the Ohio State University Library, 
and in connection with the distribution of the publications of the 
Academy. 
17. Duties of Committee on State Parks and Conservation. The Com- 
mittee on State Parks and Conservation shall consider the various pos- 
sibilities in the formation of State Parks in areas of scenic, geologic, or 
piologic interest, and other effective methods for the preservation of the 
native fauna and flora and for the conservation of the natural resources 
of the State; it shall co-operate in all possible ways with other societies, 
institutions, and State officers in the promotion of these objects. 
18. Terms of Office. The President, Vice-Presidents, Secretary, 
Treasurer, and elective members of the Executive Committee and 
Publication Committee shall be elected annually at the annual meeting, 
