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pared a display of historic medical and
surgical instruments, and
in the next room is an especially fine
exhibit of the evolution of
costumes. All of these are worthy of
your attention.
PRESIDENT JOHNSON: Is there any further business to be brought
before this meeting? If not, a motion
for adjournment is in order.
A motion for adjournment was offered by
Howard R.
Goodwin, seconded by Edward S. Thomas
and carried.
MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
BOARD OF
TRUSTEES OF THE OHIO STATE
ARCHAEOLOGICAL
AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY, APRIL 7, 1939
The regular April meeting of the Board
of Trustees of the Ohio
State Archaeological and Historical
Society was held in the Ohio State
Museum, Friday afternoon, April 7, 1939,
at one o'clock. Trustees present
were Messrs. Johnson, Miller, Spetnagel,
Wolfe, Mrs. Anna Young of
Zanesville, making her first appearance
as a trustee, and Mr. George B.
Smith of Dayton, newly returned to
membership on the Board. Director
Shetrone, Secretary Lindley, and Miss
Hiestand were also present. In the
course of the afternoon a telephone
message was received from Mr. Flor-
ence authorizing those present to act
for him and to cast his ballot with
theirs in the election of staff members
and officers of the Board. By this
action Mr. Florence made it possible for
the Board to transact business as
a quorum. Mr. Johnson presided over the
meeting.
There being no objections to the minutes
of the previous meeting
which had been sent to members of the
Board through the mail, those
minutes were declared approved.
After a brief resume of the previous
history of the Society's interest
in the McFarland Estate at Oxford, Ohio,
the secretary reported that he
felt the time had come for the Society
to take immediate and definite
action, either alone or in cooperation
with the Ohio State University, to
secure the $1,000 coming to it from that
estate. The Board instructed the
secretary to take whatever action he deemed
necessary to obtain a settle-
ment of this estate, and suggested that
he cooperate with the Attorney-
General of Ohio in whatever legal action
might be required.
The Board expressed its approval of the
re-appropriation by the Ohio
legislature of the unexpended balance of
the money originally granted dur-
ing the past biennium for the
publication by the Society of a six-volume
History of Ohio, and asked that a
sentence expressing its approbation of
such re-appropriation be included in the
general statement of approval
which the secretary had been instructed
by the Society (in its morning
meeting of April 7, 1939) to draw up for
whatever use he might make