212 Proceedings of the Ohio State Academy of Science 



special session devoted to a discussion of the questions pertaining 

 to the conservation of the resources of the State. 



J. A. BOWNOCKER^ 



W. R. Lazenby, 

 Herbert Osborn, 



Committee. 



In connection with the discussion of the value of geological 

 and biological excursions for students in the secondary schools, 

 by Professor Hubbard, it was voted that a committee be ap- 

 pointed by the President of the society to report at the next an- 

 nual meeting. 



A telegram was received from the Indiana Academy of 

 Science then in session, conveying the good will of the members 

 of that society to the Ohio Academy. The following reply was 

 sent: "The Ohio Academ}^ of Science cordially reciprocates the 

 greetings of the Indiana Academy of Science." 



At the close of the business session the society proceeded 

 with the reading of the papers. 



At 1 1 45 a. m. the Academy was formally declared ad- 

 journed. 



The complete program of the meeting was as follows : 



1. Notes on Spondyloniorum quaternarium Ehrb. 3 min. 



M. E. Stickney 



2. The Pteridophyte Flora of Ohio. -5 min. J. H. Schaffner 



3. Injury to Trees by the season's Drouth. 5 min. W. R. Lazenby 



4. Snails collected at Cedar Point, Ohio, during July, 1908. 



5 min. S. R. Williams and J. K. Breitenbecher 



6. The Making of a Naturalist's Directory. 5 min. F. J. Hillig 



6. The Occurrence of a New Species of Land Planarian 

 in Ohio, with notes on the common species, Rhyncho- 



demiis sylvaticus Leidy. 5 min. ' L. B. Walton 



7. The Behavior of The Opossum (Didelphys virginiana) . 



5 min. G. E. Coghill 



8. Differentiation of the general Cutaneous and Visceral 



ganglia in Ameiurus. 12 min. F. L. Landacre 



9. Some Aspects of Amitosis in Synchytrium. 5 min. R. F. Griggs 



10. Direction of Flow of Encephalic Fluid in Amia calva L. 



5 min. Chas. Brookover 



11. Recent Evaporation Investigations. 12 min. J. Warren Smith 



