l62 HANDBOOK OF LEARNED SOCIETIES 



JOURNAL . . . v. I-XI, Jan. i896-Dec. 1906. Chicago, [1896-1906.] 

 8. bi-m. 



Price: $3 per annum; single numbers, 500. 

 Distribution. Exchange. On sale by the Secretary. 



Prises. CHANUTE MEDALS. 3 bronze medals awarded annually for the 

 best papers on civil, mechanical, and electrical engineering presented 

 during the year by members of the society. 



CINCINNATI, O. 



Cincinnati Society of Natural History. 



Address. 312 Broadway, Cincinnati, O. Director of the museum and 

 library : Josua L/indahl. 



History. Organized and incorporated in 1870. Succeeded in 1871 to the 

 effects (money, books, collection) of the Western Academy of Natural 

 Sciences. 



Ref.: The Cincinnati society of natural history. An account of its organiza- 

 tion and a description of its collections. Cincinnati, 1902. 



Object. To investigate natural history; to carry on observations which tend to 

 increase the sum of scientific knowledge; to establish a public museum and a 

 scientific library; to promote the diffusion of science. 



Meetings. Monthly, ist Tuesday. Free courses of popular scientific lectures during 

 the winter season. 



Membership. 135 (annual dues, $5: life composition, $50). 

 Publications. 



Proceedings ... no. i, Jan., 1876. Cincinnati, [1876]. 8. 



No more published. "Several papers read at previous meetings were pub- 

 lished in the Cincinnati quarterly journal of science, which publication, a 

 private enterprise, was discontinued after the publication of vol. II, no. 4, 

 Oct., 1875." 



JOURNAL . . . v. I-XX, 1878/79-1901/06. Cincinnati, [1879-1906]. 8. 

 q. (v. 1-18) ; irreg. (v. 19, 20). 



v. 3-4 contain 4 reports on archeological explorations by the Literary and 

 scientific society of Madisonville, Ohio. 6 (Also issued separately.) 



Price: $2 per vol. 



Index, v. i-io, inclusive, and pt. I of Proceedings. [Cincinnati, 

 1888.] 8. 

 Distribution. Exchange. On sale at the above address. 



a Publ: Catalogue of flowering plants and ferns, observed in the vicinity of Cin- 

 cinnati. By Jos. Clark. Cincinnati, 1852. 30 p. 4. 



^Organized 1877. Monthly meetings, 2d Tuesday. 20 active members (entrance 

 fee, $2). No other publications. Secretary: C. L. Metz, Madisonville, Hamilton 

 Co., O. 



