December 24, 1915] 



SCIENCE 



891 



first year: President, E. W. Claypole, 

 Buchtel College, Akron; Vice-presidents, 

 A. A. "Wright, Oberlin, and EUen B. Smith, 

 Lake Erie Seminary, Painesville; Secre- 

 tary, "William R. Lazenby, Ohio State Uni- 

 versity, Columbus; and A. D. Selby, 

 Treasurer, Columbus, Ohio. Elected as 

 members of the Executive Committee were 

 E. T. Nelson, Ohio "Wesleyan, Delaware, 

 and A. D. Cole, then of Denison University, 

 Granville. It should be noted that of the 

 seven elected ofScers only two, the secretary 

 and treasurer, were residents of Columbus, 

 and connected with the state university. I 

 mention this to show that from the very 

 outset, the academy has been a state-wide 

 institution and in no way restricted or 

 limited to any one section of the state. At- 

 tention is also called to the fact that the 

 charter members of the academy, fifty-nine 

 in number, included mathematicians, chem- 

 ists, physicists in generous proportions. 



It was also quite representative of the 

 educational institutions of the state that 

 were interested in science. Besides the 

 state university which naturally had the 

 largest number, the following universities 

 and colleges were represented: Buchtel, 

 Cincinnati, Denison, Miami, Mount Union, 

 Oberlin, Ohio, Ohio "Wesleyan, Otterbein, 

 Starling Medical, "Western Reserve and 

 "Wilmington. Lake Erie Seminary and the 

 State Experiment Station, as well as the 

 high schools of Alliance, Cincinnati, Cleve- 

 land, Columbus, Chillieothe, Dayton, De- 

 fiance, Geneva, Kent, Portsmouth, San- 

 dusky, and TifSn were likewise represented. 



At the first meeting the secretary was in- 

 structed to secure articles of incorporation, 

 and to publish the constitution and by-laws, 

 together with a list of the officers and 

 members. 



In accordance with the above instruc- 

 tions, a certificate of incorporation was duly 

 filed with the Secretary of State on March 



12, 1892. This certificate bore the following 

 names as incorporators of the Ohio State 

 Academy of Science: "W. A. Kellerman, 

 F. M. "Webster, A. D. Selby, "W. C. Werner, 

 E. E. Bogue and "W. R. Lazenby. Of these 

 incorporators Professors Kellerman and 

 Bogue have passed away. 



The academy held its first field meeting 

 in Summit County on June 3 and 4, 1892, 

 the headquarters being at what was then 

 Buchtel College, in the city of Akron. 



The program for the field-day included an 

 excursion by steamer to Long Lake, and 

 the day was spent in and about the attrac- 

 tive "Lake District" of Summit County. 

 The botanists observed the rich and varied 

 plant societies of the swamps, and the geol- 

 ogists were interested in the great moraines 

 to which, in part at least, the swamps, ponds 

 and lakes owe their origin. In the evening 

 a reception was held in the gymnasium of 

 Buchtel College, at which the visitors were 

 welcomed by the mayor of Akron, the 

 president of the college, Dr. 0. Cone, and 

 the president of the Akron Scientific Club. 



The next day at an early hour the mem- 

 bers and visitors set out for Cuyahoga Falls, 

 where they were cordially welcomed. They 

 were conducted some three miles through 

 the post-glacial gorge of the Cuyahoga 

 River. 



This excursion was equally interesting 

 and profitable. The geologists and botan- 

 ists and entomologists improved the oppor- 

 tunity and added to their stores of scien- 

 tific facts. 



After the passing of a quarter of a cen- 

 tury, I can look back upon this as one of 

 the red-letter days of my life. 



"What was called on the program the first 

 annual meeting, although in reality the 

 second, was held in Columbus, December 29 

 and 30, 1892. At this meeting twenty-five 

 papers were read. The papers were for the 

 most part on some phase of botany, geology 



