EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT 



OHIO STATE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 



WINTER MEETING. 



The ninth annual meeting was held at the Public 

 Library Building in Cleveland, December 22nd and 

 23rd, 1899. The attendance surpassed that of any 

 previous winter meeting. With only two exceptions 

 the forty-eight papers on the printed program were 

 presented, nearly all of them by their authors. Al- 

 though no time was wasted, it was found necessary, in 

 order to complete the program before 5 o'clock Satur- 

 day afternoon, to separate into sections. Accordingly 

 at 2:15 the botanists withdrew to a separate room to 

 hear the botanical papers which remained unread at 

 that time. 



A. D. Selby and J. A. Bownocker were appointed a 

 committee to draft resolutions regarding the two 

 members who had died during the year, — Doctor Orton 

 and General Force. 



After some discussion, the Academ}' voted to have 

 a committee appointed to prepare a directory of the 

 streams, lakes, ponds, artificial reservoirs, swamps and 

 marshes of Ohio. The president appointed the follow- 

 ing on this committee: — E. B. Williamson, W. A. 

 Kellerman, Gerard Fowke. 



A committee consisting of H. C. Beardslee and 

 Herbert Osborn was elected for the purpose of deciding 

 on the best system of colors to be adopted for general 

 use in scientific descriptions. 



