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THE THIRD SUMMER MEETING OF THE OHIO 

 ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 



This was held at Granville in Licking County b}- invita- 

 tion of the Faculty of Denison University. The members 

 who took part in the gathering assembled at Granville were 

 many. Those who arrived early or on the previous evening, 

 started on an early train to visit the great Licking Reservoir. 

 This sheet of water — the feeder of the Ohio Canal — lies o'\ a 

 great flat that occupies part of the divide between the water 

 going east to the Muskingum and that going west to the 

 Scioto. It has been enlarged much beyond its original and 

 natural limit and is now one of the largest water areas natural 

 or artificial in the state. Here the botanical members spent 

 the da}- on the water and around it collecting the many aquatic 

 plants which grow in the vicinity. They returned at eve- 

 ning tired but rich. Others returned to Granville and spent 

 an hour or two looking over Denison University, e.specially 

 the new Science Hall, that forms so useful and beautiful an 

 addition to the educational outfit. The climb to the building 

 was repaid by the wide view that the site afforded over the 

 adjoining countr\-. 



After dinner an excursion on the electric cars was un- 

 dertaken, and under guidance of Prof. Tight the rapid de- 

 struction of the till and river bank was demonstrated and its 

 5'early progress shown by a series of photographs. The excur- 

 sion was then continued to the Waverly quarries where a few 

 good fossils were obtained and the party then intercepted the 

 electric cars and returned to Granville to tea. 



In the evening the usual gathering took place in the 

 LTniversity. Then Pres. Purinton welcomed the members 

 and short addresses were made by President Webster, Pro- 

 fessors Herrick, Tight, Cole, Clay pole, Kellerman and 

 others. The rooms of the University were lighted up before 

 and after the meeting and the visitors wandered through 

 them, collecting at various points of interest from time to 

 time while a heavy thunderstorm which had come on during 

 the time of the as.sembly had passed over. 



