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Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio. 



Address. Burnet Woods Park, Cincinnati, O. Address the Librarian. 



History. Incorporated Feb. n, 1831, and organized in Dec. of same 

 year, with seat at Columbus; removed to Cincinnati in 1849 for the 

 purpose of union with the Cincinnati Historical Society (founded 1844), 

 the consolidated societies retaining- the name of the older organiza- 

 tion. Meetings suspended during the Civil War; reorganization ef- 

 fected in 1868. Library (85,500 volumes and pamphlets) and cabinet 

 at the rooms of the society in the Van Vormer Library building of the 

 University of Cincinnati. 



Ref. : History of the Historical and philosophical society of Ohio, by W. 

 H. Venable. (In Magazine of western history, v. 3, 1885/86, p. 499- 

 506.) Library of the Historical and philosophical society of Ohio, by 

 Catherine W. Lord. (In Sketches of Ohio libraries, comp. by C. B. 

 Galbreath. Columbus, O., 1902, p. 92-96.) Facts and conditions of 

 progress in the Northwest, by Wm. D. Gallagher. Cincinnati, 1850, p. 

 78-85. 



Object. Collection and preservation of everything relating to the history and 

 antiquities of America, more especially of the State of Ohio, and the diffusion 

 of knowledge concerning them. 

 Meetings. Monthly, ist Saturday, Oct. to May inclusive. Annual meeting, ist 



Monday in Dec. 



Membership. 77 corporate, who must be residents of Ohio (entrance fee, $10; 

 annual dues, $10) ; 21 life ($100) ; 10 corresponding; 2 honorary. 



Publications. 



Transactions of the Historical and philosophical society of Ohio. v. I, 



pt. 1-2. Columbus, 1838; Cincinnati, 1839. 8. 



pt. I has title Journal . . . (reprinted, Cincinnati, 1872.) 

 Annals of the Cincinnati historical society. I. Cincinnati, 1845. ^- 

 Notes on the early settlement of the Northwest Territory. By Jacob 



Burnet. Cincinnati, 1847. 8. 

 Pioneer history ; being an account of the first examinations of the Ohio 



valley and the early settlement of the Northwest Territory. By S. P. 



Hildreth. Cincinnati, 1848. 8. 



Pub. under the superintendence of the Cincinnati historical society. 

 (Called in publisher's advt. the first volume of the Transactions of 

 the society.) 



Biographical and historical memoirs of the early pioneer settlers of 

 Ohio, with narratives of incidents and occurrences in 1775. By S. P. 

 Hildreth. Cincinnati, 1852. 8. 



Called in the preface "the second volume of the early history of Ohio, 

 prepared by Dr. Hildreth . . . and published under the auspices of the 

 Ohio historical society." 



