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of labelling and transporting such specimens, and furnish evi- 
dence that such collections will be duly preserved and made 
available for the use of students and others interested. Pref- 
erence is to be given in order of application to high schools offer- 
ing courses in Nature Study, Zoology or Botany, and so located 
that no other collections of a similar nature are available for 
study and demonstration.” 
The Sections following (5 to 8) provide for publication which 
is on the same plan as the Geological Survey, for compensation 
of officers, expenses and accounting, and provides an annual 
appropriation of $5000 for carrying on the work. 
It is believed by the Committee and others consulted that 
the bill would give an opportunity to push a much needed study 
of our native fauna and flora and it should meet the hearty sup- 
port of all interested in the Natural History of the State as w’ell 
as the members of the Academy. Letters endorsing the measure 
to be effective, should be sent as prompt!}' as possible to indi- 
vidual members of the House or Senate or to Hon. C. V. Trott, 
House of Representatives, Capitol Building, Columbus, Ohio. 
While an argument for the Survey seems altogether unnec- 
essary for readers of the N.\turalist, a statement of some of the 
lines of study especially needed may be useful. It is particularly 
desirable that there should be a careful, systematic study of the 
Fauna and Flora, pushed as rapidly as possible to determine the 
present status and for comparison during future years. Such a 
scientific foundation is needed in many lines of study or practical 
w'ork but perhaps from the standpoint of general knowledge 
would serve its greatest purpose as a help to teachers of Natural 
Science in the various schools. It will have all the greater 
service in this connection if these same teachers can have a hand 
in the work of the survey and in the distribution and use of the 
collections resulting from its work. A full knowledge of the 
aquatic life of the waters of the state is of direct and essential 
importance in matters of health and in the development of the 
fishing interests; moreover, the depletion or extinction of such 
life by sewage and factory waste that pollute our lakes and 
streams has economic as well as scientific interest. 
The bill already has received approval and hearty endorse- 
ment from the presidents of a number of Ohio colleges and 
universities and of individuals acquainted with the need for 
such a survev. It is House Bill No. 363. 
H. O. 
