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At 3:30 P. M. the Academy assembled to hear the President's 

 address on the Formation of Sandusky Bay and Cedar Point. 



This was followed by the paper by Professor Halstead on 

 Mathematics and Biology. The Academy here adjourned to the 

 Physics Building to hear the illustrated lecture by Professor 

 D. C. Miller on Radium. 



At 7 P. M. the Academy met in the Biological Building for 

 the business meeting. 



The Academy elected Dr. Lindahl, Professor Osborn and 

 Professor Wright a Committee on Nomination to report at the 

 last business meeting. 



On motion of Dr. Lindahl the Secretary was instructed to 

 communicate to Mr. Emerson McMihin a vote of thanks from 

 the Academy for his generous support of the research work of 

 the Academy. 



On motion by Professor Osborn a vote of thanks was 

 extended to Professor Miller for his illustrated lecture on Radium. 



At 7:30 p. M. the Academy adjourned to the Physics Build- 

 ing to hear an illustrated lecture by Professor Herrick on the 

 Building Habits and Home Life of Birds. 



The Academy reconvened at 8:30 on November 26 for a 

 short business meeting. The Program Committee reported that 

 all authors offering titles had comphed with the provision passed 

 at the preceding annual meeting, namely "that no titles should 

 be read before the Academy unless an abstract was in the hands 

 of the committee" except Mrs. Houk and Professors Kellerman 

 and Schaffner. The committee recommended that the first 

 paper by Mrs. Houk be admitted to the program and the second 

 be deferred to a later time and made no recommendation in 

 regard to the papers of Professors Kellerman and Schaffner as 

 they were not present. The reading of papers was then taken up. 



At 11 A. M. after the reading of papers was finished the final 

 business meeting of the Academy occurred in which Professor 

 Walton's motion that the Program Committee consist of five 

 members was discussed and passed. This makes the committee 

 consist of one member for Zoology, one for Botany, one for 

 Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics, one for Geology and 

 Physiography, and one for Anthropology, Archeolog}' and 

 Ethnology, in the order named. 



The report of the Committee oh Nominations was presented 

 by Dr. Lindahl and is as follows : 



For President Prof. Herbert Osborn 



1st Vice President Pres. C. W. Dabney 



2nd Vice President Prof. F. M. Comstock 



