Ohio State University. Biological Club

Active around the turn of the twentieth century, the Biological Club of the Ohio State University is best known through the journals it issued rather than through a single public-facing biography. Records from the Biodiversity Heritage Library identify the club as the publisher of The O.S.U. Naturalist and later The Ohio Naturalist, published in Columbus beginning in 1900 and 1901.

Those journals focused especially on the natural history of Ohio and served as an official outlet for the club’s work. Catalog records describe The Ohio Naturalist as the official organ of both the Biological Club of the Ohio State University and the Ohio Academy of Science, showing that the club played a real part in early scientific communication in the state.

Because this is an organization rather than an individual author, and because no reliable portrait could be confirmed from the sources reviewed here, a profile image is not included.