SUPPLEMENT TO 
<§he ®f?io I^atapalist 
PUBLISHED BY 
The Biological Club of the Ohio State University 
Volume VIII 
No. i 
NOVEMBER 1907 
LIBRARY 
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A PROPOSED NATURAL HISTORY 
SURVEY FOR OHIO 
The movement to establish a Natural History Survey 
in Ohio was inaugurated at the Cincinnati meeting of 
the Ohio Academy of Science in 1905, when a committee 
consisting of Herbert Osborn, L. B. Walton and E. L. 
Rice was appointed to prepare a bill and secure its con¬ 
sideration by the State Legislature. The report of this 
committee printed herewith with endorsements from va¬ 
rious sources shows the sentiment of those best qualified 
to judge of the value of such a work. 
The Academy at its annual meeting in 1906 adopted 
this report and authorized the committee to have it 
printed, to increase its membership and to further the 
project in every way at its command. 
In pursuance of this act the committee has asked the 
following me tubers to serve on the enlarged committee: 
Professor Charles Brookover, Buchtel College, Akron; 
Prof. G. E. Coghill, Denison University, Granville; Mr. 
Chas. Dary, Cincinnati; Prof. Bruce Fink, Miami Uni¬ 
versity; Prof. M. F. Guver, Cincinnati University; Prof. 
H. A. Gossard, Wooster; Prof. Lynds Jones, Oberlin; 
Mr. J. U. Lloyd, Cincinnati; Prof. W. F. Mercer, Athens; 
Prof. E. L. Mosel)', Sandusky; Prof. F. C. Waite, Cleve¬ 
land; Prof. S. H. Williams, Miami University; Dr. H. S. 
True, McConnelsville; Dr. F. D. Snyder, Ashtabula; Dr. 
S. H. Todd, Wooster; Dr. C. E. Slocum, Defiance; C. L. 
Martzolff, Athens; E. H. Ei war Is. Cle vel ind. 
The committee will be pleased to have assistance of 
any who are interested in the measure and suggestions 
as to means of furthering the project are cordially invited. 
The Surveys of this character which have been in op- 
