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Title: The Ohio Journal of Science, Vol. XVI, No. 1, November 1915

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The Ohio
Journal of Science

NOVEMBER,
Volume XVI.    1915    Number 1.


(Continuation of The Ohio Naturalist)

Official Organ of the

Ohio State University Scientific Society

and of the

Ohio Academy of Science

COLUMBUS, OHIO

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J. F. Lyman Agricultural Chemistry
F. W. Ives Agricultural Engineering
A. G. McCall Agronomy
F. L. Landacre Anatomy
J. H. Schaffner Botany
Carl B. Harrop Ceramic Engineering
Jas. R. Withrow Chemistry
F. H. Eno Civil Engineering
N. W. Scherer Forestry
C. S. Prosser Geology
V. H. Davis Horticulture
W. A. Knight Industrial Arts
C. J. West Mathematics
Horace Judd Mechanical Engineering
Jonathan Forman Pathology
F. C. Blake Physics
R. J. Seymour Physiology (General)
Clayton McPeek Physiology (Medical)
E. R. Hayhurst Public Health & Sanitation
J. S. Hine Zoology and Entomology

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THE

Ohio Journal of Science

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Ohio State University Scientific Society

Volume XVI   NOVEMBER, 1915   No. 1


TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introductory  1
Lord—The Making of a Photographic Objective  3
Transeau—Notes on the Zygnemales 17
Organization of the Ohio State University Scientific Society   32