OHIO STATE
ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL
SOCIETY.
REVIEWS, NOTES AND COMMENTS
BY THE EDITOR
HISTORICAL COMMISSION OF OHIO
The following communication from
Professor Carl
Wittke, Secretary of the Historical
Commission of
Ohio, to members of the Historical
Guild and others
interested is self explanatory:
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, April 12,
1923.
DEAR SIR:--
In response to the call to the
Historical Guild of the state
for a conference in Columbus to discuss
plans to promote a bet-
ter co-ordination of the historical work
being done in the state,
and to direct attention to some hitherto
neglected fields, repre-
sentatives of seven Ohio colleges and
universities and the Ohio
Archaeological and Historical Society,
met for a breakfast con-
ference on Saturday, March 31. It was
the wish of the group
that a full report of the proceedings be
sent to all who had re-
ceived the call to attend this meeting.
PROCEEDINGS OF MARCH 31, 1923
Professor H. C. Hockett of Ohio State
University was asked
to serve as temporary chairman of the
group. In setting forth
the various steps which led to this
conference, Mr. Hockett stated
that the State University, in somewhat
tardy recognition, of its
obligation to the historical activities
of the state, had completed
arrangements to release one member of
the Department of Amer-
ican History, Mr. Carl Wittke, from much
of his teaching load,
so that he might develop the field of
Ohio History and devote
his energies to research and the
development of greater
facilities for research in this field.
It was the consensus of
opinion of the signers of the call for
this conference that plans
should be made to promote the
publishing, editing and collec-
tion of historical materials, and
perhaps also undertake a sys-
teratic historical survey of the state.
This work could probably
be best accomplished by an historical
commission, representing
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