Februaet 11, 1916] 



SCIENCE 



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sucking action as the initial stimulus for gall 

 production. 



Harry E. Eosen 

 IT. S. National Museum 



THE QUARTER-CENTENNIAL ANNI- 

 VERSARY OF THE OHIO ACADEMY 

 OF SCIENCES 



The twenty-fifth annual meeting of the Ohio 

 Academy of Science was held at the Ohio State 

 University, Columbus, on Friday and Saturday, 

 November 26 and 27, 1915, under the presidency 

 of Professor J. Warren Smith, of Columbus. 



Owing to the anniversary character of the meet- 

 ing the usual program of volunteer papers was .-e- 

 placed by a series of invited addresses, as follows: 



Presidential Address, ' ' Agricultural Meteorol- 

 ogy, ' ' Professor J. Warren Smith, United States 

 Weather Bureau, Columbus. 



' ' Applied Meteorology and the Work of the 

 Weather Bureau," Br. Charles F. Marvin, Chief 

 United States Weather Bureau, Washington, D. 0. 



"The Eelation of the Academy to the State and 

 to the People of the State, ' ' Dr. T. C. Mendenhall, 

 Eavenna. 



"Historical Sketch of the Ohio Academy of Sci- 

 ence," Professor William K. Lazenby, Ohio State 

 University, Columbus. 



Reviews of Scientific Progress in the Quarter 

 Century : 



' ' Geology, ' ' Professor Frank Carney, Denison 

 University, Granville. 



"Botany," Professor Bruce Fink, Miami Uni- 

 versity, Oxford. 



"Physics," Professor Frank P. Whitman, West- 

 ern Reserve University, Cleveland. 



"Zoology," Professor Edward L. Rice, Ohio 

 Wesleyan University, Delaware. 



"Chemistry," Professor William McPherson, 

 Ohio State University, Columbus. 



"Archeology," Professor G. Frederick Wright, 

 Oberlin College, Oberlin. 



At the supper, held on Friday evening at the Ohio 

 Union, short addresses were given by visiting dele- 

 gates from other scientific societies. Governor 

 Willis had expected to be present and to speak, 

 but was unavoidably prevented at the last mo- 

 ment. 



Notice was received of the appointment of the 

 following delegates; those marked with the aster- 

 isk were present at the meeting. 

 American Association for the Advancement of 



Science, 



*Professor L. O. Howard, Washington, D. C. 

 Boston Society of Natural History, 



*Professor Frederick C. Waite, Cleveland, O. 

 Chicago Academy of Science, 



Dr. Frank C. Baker, Cliicago, HI. 

 Indiana Academy of Science, 



*Dr. D. W. Dennis, Richmond, Ind. 

 Mr. E. B. Williamson, Bluffton, Ind. 

 Iowa Academy of Science, 



*Professor Herbert Osborn, Columbus, O. 

 Dr. Charles R. Keyes, Des Moines, la. 

 New York Academy of Science, 



Mr. Emerson McMillin, New York City. 

 Professor H. P. Gushing, Cleveland, O. 

 Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 



Dr. Howard Ayers, Cincinnati, O. 

 Washington Academy of Sciences, 



^Professor Dayton C. Miller, Cleveland, O. 

 *Dr. Charles F. Marvin, Washington, D. C. 

 Cincinnati Section of the American Chemical So- 

 ciety, 



Dr. Lauder W. Jones, Cincinnati, O. 

 Dr. Alfred Springer, Cincinnati, O. 

 Cincinnati Society of Natural History, 



Dr. DeLisle Stewart, Cincinnati, O. 

 Columbus Audubon Society, 



*Professor J. 0. Hambleton, Columbus, 0. 

 Miss Lucy Stone, Columbus, O. 

 Denison Scientific Association, 



*Dr. George Fitch McKibben, Granville, O. 

 *Mr. Charles W. Henderson, Granville, 0. 

 Wooster University Scientific Club, 



*Mr. Frank H. McCombs, Wooster, O. 

 The Cuvier Press Club, 



Mr. James W. Faulkner, Cincinnati, O. 

 Association of Ohio Teachers of Mathematics and 

 Science, 



*Professor S. E. Rasor, Columbus, O. 

 Ohio State University Scientific Association, 



Professor Karl D. Swartzel, Columbus, O. 

 *Professor James R. Withrow, Columbus, 0. 

 Oxford Science Club, 



*Professor J. A. Culler, Oxford, O. 

 Otterbein Science Club, 



*Mr. Richard M. Bradfield, Westerville, O. 

 Baldwin-Wallace Science Seminar, 



*Professor E. L. Fullmer, Berea, O. 

 The following members of the old Tyndall As- 

 sociation, so potent in the scientific life of Co- 

 lumbus and Ohio in the seventies and eighties, were 

 also present by special invitation: 

 Mr. H. N. P. Dole, Columbus, O. 

 Mr. Martin Hensel, Columbus, O. 



