Report of the Eighteenth Annual Meeting 



of the 



Ohio State Academy of Science 



ANNUAL MEETING 



The eighteenth annual meeting of the Academy was held at 

 Denison University, Granville, O., on November 26, 27 and 28, 

 the President, Prof. Frank Carney, presiding On Thursday 

 evening a reception was given at the residence of President and 

 Mrs. Emory W. Hunt, of the l^niversity, where refreshments 

 were served and a most delightful evening was passed by the 

 considerable number of members present. The university au- 

 thorities had generously placed the dormitories at the disposal of 

 the society while arrangements for meals had been made in the 

 town. 



After an informal session of various committees the meet- 

 ing was called to order by the President of the Academy at 9 :oo 

 Friday morning in Barney Memorial Hall. A brief address ex- 

 tending the cordial greetings of the University to the society was 

 made by President Hunt, after which occurred the regular busi- 

 ness meeting. 



The President called attention to the loss sustained by the 

 society through the deaths of three members since the last annual 

 meeting. Prof. W. A. Kellerman of Ohio State University, 

 Hon. Joseph H. Outhwaite, and John J. Janney. The life of 

 Prof. Kellerman was sacrificed to science, his death resulting 

 from a tropical fever while on a collecting expedition in Guate- 

 mala, Central America. He served the society as President in 

 1897, and rarely an annual meeting occurred that his interest was 

 not manifested through his attendance and participation in the 

 program. Both Mr. Outhwaite and Mr. Janney who were also 



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