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The Ohio Naturalist. 
[Vol. IX, No. 5, 
Orton Hall, Jan. 18, 1909. 
The club was called to order by the President, Miss Freda 
Detmers, and the minutes of the previous meeting were read and 
approved as read. 
The program consisted of Reports from those present at the 
Baltimore Meeting, December, 1908, of the American Associa¬ 
tion for the Advancement of Science and Adulated Socities. Prof. 
Osborn stated that this was probably the largest aggregation of 
scientific men ever gathered in the country.. Prof. Osborn 
reported on the meetings of the American Association of Econo¬ 
mic Entomologists mentioning Prof. S. A. Forbes’ address in 
which a line of work was presented which will put entomology 
on a wider biological basis. Of the papers given before the 
Entomological Society of America, he mentioned in particular 
that of Prof. Poulton of Oxford, England, on Mimicry in Ameri¬ 
can butterflies. 
Prof. Prosser gave an extended account of the geology section 
laying particular emphasis upon the proper recognition which 
Paleontology is being given in stratigraphical work. 
Prof. Lazenby reported on the Darwin celebration. 
Prof. Griggs stated that while in the Botany section, papers 
of fundamental importance were read no great stride in science was 
in evidence. The work consisted of a large number of papers 
of real though not striking scientific value. 
Dr. G. D. Hubbard described the papers on geographic and 
physiographic work as a series of smaller contributions to the 
greater problems. 
Mr. Herbert Osborn, Jr., gave a report of the three views 
of evolution as brought cut at the meetings: (1) Daven¬ 
port supports the theory of mutation as a predominating factor 
of evolution; (2) Eiganmann, of Indiana, supports the theory of 
the inheritance of acquired characters; (3) H. F. Osborn in his 
study of paleontology supports the theory of evolution by small 
variations. 
Messrs. J. F. Zimmer and L. L. Scott gave brief reports. 
Prof. Griggs, the chairman of the committee to consider a 
change in the time of meeting, reported that in the judgment of 
the committee no other night of the week seemed any more desir¬ 
able than the present time, viz.: the first Monday of each month. 
A motion was made and carried to the effect that action on the 
report of the committee be laid on the table until the next meet¬ 
ing. 
Wilbur Mikesell was elected to membership. 
Arthur H. McCray, Secy 
Date of Publication, March IS, 1909. 
