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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XLII. No. 1095 



and entomology. Perhaps the most signif- 

 icant action at this meeting was a brief re- 

 port of the Committee on Publications, 

 which announced that it had selected the 

 Journal of the Cincinnati Society of Nat- 

 ural History and the technical series of 

 Bulletins of the Ohio Experiment Station, 

 as the official organs of the academy, until 

 better arrangements can be made. 



At the close of this second annual meet- 

 ing, although in reality the end of the first 

 year of the existence of the academy, the 

 total membership was as follows: Annual 

 members 116 — of which number 59 were 

 charter members, and one life member, Mr. 

 Emerson McMillin, who at this early day 

 became a generous patron. 



Having dwelt in some detail upon the 

 founding and early history of the academy, 

 I shall treat its subsequent career and ac- 

 complishments more briefly. 



Statistics are usually wearisome, but in 

 the interests of history they can not be 

 wholly avoided. 



What may be termed the annual mem- 

 bership of the academy has increased from 

 59 charter members in 1891 to 234 mem- 

 bers in 1915. About one fifth of the mem- 

 bership reside outside of Ohio, and are 

 found in 15 different states, besides the Dis- 

 trict of Columbia, Hawaii and Canada. 

 The Ohio residents are found in more than 

 50 counties of the state. 



To illustrate the regularity of growth in 

 numbers, the fifth year the membership was 

 157; tenth, 173; fifteenth, 179; twentieth, 

 196 ; twenty-fifth, 234. 



As to attendance, one can not speak con- 

 fidently, for no records have been kept. On 

 the average I should say that one third of 

 the resident membership have attended the 

 annual meetings. As to place, fourteen of 

 the twenty-five annual meetings have been 

 held in Columbus, two in Granville, two in 

 Cincinnati, two in Cleveland, one each in 

 Oxford, Delaware, Akron and Oberlin. 



Summer meetings have been held in well- 

 selected places in the following counties: 

 Summit, Hocking, Licking, Erie, Butler, 

 Knox, Montgomery, Franklin, Ottawa and 

 Wayne. Several of these were joint meet- 

 ings with other organizations. For in- 

 stance, in Butler County with the Indiana 

 Academy of Science; in Franklin County 

 with the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science (the summer meeting 

 of 1899) ; at Put-in-Bay with the Ohio 

 Teachers Association, and in Sandusky 

 County with the same organization. These 

 delightful meetings were held each year for 

 the first ten years in the life of the acad- 

 emy. For some reason, unknown to me, 

 they then ceased. Would it not be well to 

 renew them? As summer schools are now 

 held at many points in Ohio, it might be ad- 

 visable to arrange a meeting of a day or 

 two with the scientific departments of some 

 one of these schools. 



The papers presented during the twenty- 

 five years number 1,124, or an average of 

 45 for each meeting. The range in number 

 is from 10, read at the first meeting, to 64, 

 read at the fifteenth. At the twenty-fourth 

 meeting the number was 61, and at the 

 twenty-fifth it was 58. 



Cloud and sunshine, joy and grief, are 

 common contrasts in our life. We experi- 

 enced these contrasts at the eighth annual 

 meeting. The first serious break in the 

 ranks of our membership had then occurred. 

 Two of our ablest members were missing. 

 We grieved that Dr. Kellicott had been 

 stricken by death, and that Dr. Claypole 

 had left Ohio to spend the remainder of his 

 days in the more genial climate of Cali- 

 fornia. 



At the same time we rejoiced that one 

 who had already proven himself a friend 

 should modestly announce that he had given 

 the academy $250, to be expended in ways 

 best suited to promote scientific research; 

 with the further statement that such a sura 



