As the result of the sentiment expressed at the 1914 meeting of the Ohio Academy of Science that the official organ of the Academy, “The Ohio Naturalist,” should be broadened and made more comprehensive in scope, and feeling that the Ohio State University had no publication representing the scientific work being done at the institution, the members of the Biological Club of the University, in whom the publication of the “Ohio Naturalist” had been vested, called a meeting of representatives of the various departments interested in science at the university to discuss the advisability of publishing as successor to the “Naturalist” a journal to be known as the Ohio Journal of Science.
The first meeting was held in May, 1915, and committees appointed to outline preliminary plans. At subsequent meetings the reports of the committees were discussed, interest in the plan continued to develop, until at a meeting held October 13 the following self-explanatory Constitution was adopted. The society as now constituted represents twenty-four departments of pure or applied science at the university.
Raymond J. Seymour,
Secretary Pro Tem.
CONSTITUTION.
Article I—Name.
The name of this society shall be the Ohio State University Scientific Society.
Article II—Object.
It shall be the purpose of the Society to promote scientific work in the University by holding meetings for the presentation and discussion of the results of scientific work; by co-operating with other agencies in arranging for scientific lectures and in the entertainment of visiting scientists and scientific societies; by publishing the Ohio Journal of Science and by furnishing opportunity for the discussion and promotion of any project of scientific interest which may properly come within the scope of such an organization and, in general, by furthering in every way possible the interests of scientific work in the University and the State.