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elected, and of the treasurer to furnish the publication com- 

 mittee a correct list of members for the annual report. 



An address of welcome was given on Tuesday evening, 

 the 29th, by President Canfieldof the Ohio State University, 

 to which President Wright responded. The presidential ad- 

 dress by Prof. Albert A. Wright, entitled, "A Topographic 

 Survey of Ohio," was published in full in the Oberlin News 

 January 8, 1897. A motion was carried that a committee 

 of three be appointed, the president to be one and the other 

 two to be appointed by him, to formulate plans for a topo- 

 graphic survey of the state and endeavor to secure the 

 execution of the same by legislative action. Later the pres- 

 ident appointed Aug. D. Selby and W. G. Tight members 

 of this committee. 



A motion was carried to appoint a committee of three, 

 in which the Agricultural Experiment Station and two col- 

 leges should be represented, to try to induce the legislature 

 to modify the game laws. Later the president appointed 

 the followinij to constitute this committee: W. A. Keller 

 man, F. M. Webster, A. L. Tread well. 



A congratulatory telegram was received from the Indi- 

 ana Academy of Science, in session at Indianapolis, and one 

 sent in reply. 



Dr. Claypole was appointed a committee to draft a reso- 

 lution on vivisection. The following resolution offered by 

 the committee, at a later session, was adopted andQthe sec- 

 retary instructed to transmit a copy to Senator Sherman: 



" The Ohio State Academy of Science, in its winter 

 meeting, assembled at Columbus, resolves as follows: 



" Whereas^ The practice of vivisection in the hands of ex- 

 perimenters and teachers is indispensable for the right and 

 adequate education of the medical student, for the advence- 

 ment of the art of surgery, and especially for gaining control 



