Ohio State University. Biological Club

The Biological Club of The Ohio State University appears in library and archive records as the publishing body behind The Ohio Naturalist, a periodical begun in 1900 and issued in Columbus, Ohio. Catalog records describe it as the official organ of the club, and early volumes also identify it with the Ohio Academy of Science.

Archive and bibliography listings show that the club's work fed into a broader run of scientific publishing, including The Ohio Naturalist and Journal of Science and later The Ohio Journal of Science. That makes this "author" less a single writer than a campus-based scientific community whose members helped circulate observations, articles, and research in natural history and related fields.

For modern readers, the name represents an early university society at work: students and scholars organizing, publishing, and contributing to the scientific conversation of their time. Where individual members are not clearly identified in the records reviewed here, the club itself stands as the credited creator.