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OXFORD FIELD MEETING. 



On June 4 and 5, 1896, the Oliio Academy held a joint 

 field meeting with the Indiana Academy of Science at Ox- 

 ford, Ohio. Although the attendance was not so large as 

 was hoped, nor the search for rarities in the field especially 

 well rewarded, still the opportunity of association with the 

 Indiana scientists, and the hospitalities extended by the 

 three colleges of Oxford, made the meeting a delightful and 

 profitable one. 



Many Lower Silurian fossils were found and fragments 

 of cedar in glacial till. The entomologists and botanists 

 made a number of interestinfj finds. 



On Thursday evening, the 4th, the academies dined at 

 the Western, a college for women, and the next morning 

 most of the members spent an hour or two visiting its 

 laboratories and collections. An address complimentary 

 to the citizens of Oxford was given in the chapel of Miami 

 University on Thursday evening by Prof, Stanley Coulter, 

 of De Pauw University. 



Friday e\ening the academies dined at the Oxford 

 Female Seminary, from which they went to Miami Chapel 

 to attend an illustrated lecture on Mammoth Cave by R. 

 Ellsworth Call. 



The x^cademy voted to advise the executive committee 

 to make Columbus the permanent place for holding the 

 winter meetings. 



COLUMBUS MEETING. 



The sixth annual meeting was held at Orton hall, Co- 

 lumbus, December 29 and 30, 1896. All the sessions were 

 well attended and were carried out nearly in accordance 

 with the program issued December 19. The Academy 

 voted to make it the duty of the secretary to furnish the 

 treasurer at the end of each meeting a list of the members 



