PROCEEDINGS OF THE OHIO ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 159 



Leader, Press and News ; Cincinnati Enquirer, Commercial Tribune, 

 Times-Star, and Post ; Toledo Blade, News-Bee, and Times. These notices 

 were accompanied with programs and printed statements, prepared by a 

 former secretary, concerning the work and history of the Academy. This 

 statement is now out of print. Does the Academy wish the same revised 

 and reprinted? This is the recommendation of the secretary. 



Several suggestions concerning the date of meeting and the arrange- 

 ment of the program have been received by the secretary and may well 

 be transmitted to the Academy. 



Dr. F. D. Snyder, of Ashtabula, protests against holding the meeting 

 on Thanksgiving, when "most" of the members are "entertaining or being 

 entertained", and are "unable to attend the meeting". He urges that some 

 other day, not a legal holiday, "would be much better for the members 

 to attend". 



A seemingly unrelated protest from a member of the Section for 

 Geology may well be mentioned in this' connection. This is to the effect 

 that the present arrangement of the Friday session makes it necessary for 

 a geologist to suffer a rather large amount of other science in order to 

 enjoy a rather small amount of geology. To the geologists and botanists 

 this difficulty is less serious because of the very close relation of botany 

 and zoology; the physicists have already cut the knot, and are holding a 

 sectional meeting Friday afternoon. Would it be better to hold a single 

 joint session and then dissolve into four sections? Would it not be well 

 for each section to canvass the opinion of its me^mbership on this point 

 and report to the secretary either directly or through its representative 

 on the program committee? 



Such a change in the program would also permit at least a partial 

 solution of the difficulty urged by Dr. Snyder. The program, thus short- 

 ened, might well begin Friday noon, thus giving greater freedom for the 

 Thanksgiving Day, and still adjourn by Saturday noon. 



Another suggestion of a radical change in the date of the annual meet- 

 ing is contained in- a letter from Dean Leutner, of Adelbert College, on 

 behalf of the executive committe'e of the Ohio College Association. I 

 quote the essential part of his letter: "The Executive Committee of the 

 Ohio College Association is anxious to stimulate interest in the annual 

 meetings which fall regularly in the week preceding Easter, by organizing 

 sectional meetings in the Sciences. Such meetings have been regularly 

 organized for the Modern Language Section, for the Philosophy-Education 

 Section, for the Classical Section, and have as a rule been satisfactory. 

 It has been suggested to me that it might be possible to have the meeting 

 of the Ohio Academy of Science arranged so as to synchronize with the 

 meeting of the Association. Many members of the Association would be 

 interested in the work of the Academy and vice versa". The suggestion 

 deserves the fair consideration of the Academy. 



