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Vol. XV. No 371. 



Wright made the matter the subject of his 

 presidential address. The progress of the 

 topographic survey during the past season was 

 described by 0. N. Brown. The report of the 

 Committee on Topographic Survey, prepared 

 by Albert A. Wright, the chairman, was read 

 by Lynds Jones. In conclusion it says : " It is 

 very desirable that the members of the 

 Academy and all other supporters of the sur- 

 vey, should make known, to their representa- 

 tives in the legislature and to the governor 

 and other officers of the State, their desire 

 that this work, so well inaugurated, should be 

 followed out to its completion, in the mapping 

 of the entire area of every county of the 

 State." 



The following officers were elected for the 

 ensuing year: President, W. E. Lazenby; 

 Vice-Presidents, C. J. Herrick and C. S. 

 Prosser; Secretary, E. L. Moseley; Treasurer, 

 Herbert Osborn; Elective Members of Execu- 

 tive Committee, Wm. Werthner and John 

 TJri Lloyd. 



The program was as follows : 



'New Fossils, including Sea- weeds, two new 

 genera. Carboniferous, Marietta; Land Plants, 

 two species. Carboniferous, one species, Cornifer- 

 ous; Corals, fifteen Cyathophylloids, Corniferous; 

 Brachiopods, one, Corniferous; Cephalopods, six, 

 Corniferous': H. Herzer. 



'Notes on the timber of trees of Ohio': Wil- 

 liam R. Lazenby. 



'The self- pruning of woody plants': John H. 



SCHAJTNER. 



'The Ohio species of Phyllachora' : W. A. 

 Kellerman and J. G. Sanders. 



President's Address — 'The Future of Vegetable 

 Pathology': A. D. Selby (will be published in 

 Science). 



'A striking ease of mimicry, with exhibition of 

 specimens': Herbert Osborn. 



' Smut infection experiments ' : W. A. Keller- 

 man and O. E. Jennings. 



'Further observations on the preglacial drain- 

 age of Wayne and adjacent counties': J. H. 

 Todd. 



'The weight, waste and composition of ap- 

 ples': William E.. Lazenby. 



'Plant ecology of Ohio; a general outline': 

 John H. Schaffner and Fred. J. Tyler. 



'Observations on the flora of the Gauley Moun- 

 tains, West Virginia': W. A. Kellerman. 



'Preliminary list of tamarack bogs in Ohio': 

 A. D. Selby. 



'Eeport for 1901 on the State Herbarium with 

 additions to the Ohio Plant List': W. A. Kel- 

 lerman. 



Joint Meeting of the Academy of Science and 

 the Modern Language Association of Ohio. 

 (Three titles.) 



'Modern Languages and Science in High School 

 Course': William Werthner. 



'Botanizing in the Colorado Mountains' — Illus- 

 trated: A. D. Selby. 



'Some notes on a trip to southeastern Siberia': 

 Gerard Fowke. 



'Notes on Hemiptera with some records of 

 species new to the Ohio list': Herbert Osborn. 



'Observations on some South American Hemip- 

 tera, with exhibition of specimens ' : Herbert 

 Osborn. 



'A species of Diptera mining the leaves of wild 

 rice at Sandusky': Jas. S. Hine. 



'Experiments with chemicals to improve seed 

 germination': W. A. Kellerman and F. M. Sub- 

 face. 



'A possible cause of Osars': G. H. Colton. 

 Read by the secretary. 



'The introduced species of Lactuca in Ohio': 

 A. D. Selby. 



'Gradations between Verbena stricta and Ver- 

 bena angustifoUa' : Thos. A. Bonser. 



'New plants for the Ohio Catalogue': A. D. 

 Selby. 



'Observations on the origin of forest belts in 

 Clay County, Kansas': John H. Schaffner. 



'A report on the Revised Catalogue of Ohio 

 Birds': Lynds Jones. 



'The summer birds of Lake Erie's Islands': 

 Lynds Jones. 



'Perverted Benevolence': Gerard Fowke. 



'Notes on Anthunis borealis and Erysiphe 

 graminis' : W. W. Stockberger. 



'Report on Ecology of Big Spring Prairie': T. 

 A. Bonser. 



'Some aspects of plant growth as illustrated 

 by methods of watering': W. J. Green. Pre- 

 sented by the president. 



Shall we continue the field meetings? 



What places of interest to scientists or to the 

 general public are in need of protection by the 

 State? 



In what manner may the Academy become more 

 serviceable to the scientific interests of the 

 State? 



'An insect pest new to Ohio': F. M. Websteb. 

 Read by title. 



