PREFATORY NOTE.
The first edition of this volume,
published in 1891, having
been exhausted, in response to continued
demands for copies of
the same, the Legislature of Ohio of
'93-94 appropriated the
sum of five hundred dollars to be used
by the Society in defray-
ing the expense of republication. The
original edition was pub-
lished under the direction of Mr. A. A.
Graham, at that time
Secretary of the Society, and is now
reprinted as it first ap-
peared, without alteration.
Mr. Graham tendered his resignation as
Secretary, to the
Trustees of the Society, in the fall of
1894, which was accepted
and the subscriber hereto was then
elected to fill the vacancy.
It should be stated, also, that at the
annual meeting of the
Society held February, 1895, a new
constitution was adopted by
which the annual membership fee was
reduced from five to
three dollars, and the life membership
fee from fifty to twenty-
five dollars.
The new constitution will appear in full
in volume IV,
which will be published during the
present year (1895).
E. O. RANDALL,
Secretary.
Columbus, Ohio, April, 1895.