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THE CINCISSATI QUARTERLY 



JOURNAL OF SCIENCE. 



Vol. I. JANUAKY, 1874. No. 1. 



THE JOURNAL, 



This vicinity is not surpassed in geological interest by any locality 

 in the United States. For the study of fresh water shells and fishes, 

 probably no part of the Avorld furnishes a more bountiful and desirable 

 supply for the hand of the conchologist and ichthyologist. Other 

 departments of natural history, too, are not without their objects of 

 special beauty and attraction. Indeed, wherever we turn, we are 

 liable to be met by something new, not only to ourselves, but to the 

 scientific world. 



The hills surrounding Cincinnati have been worn and lined with 

 paths by Locke, Anthony, James, Dyer, and other indefatigable paleon- 

 tological collectors, and yet the hunters have been as successful in the 

 last twelve months in the discovery of new species and rare and re- 

 markable specimens as they have ever been in any former year ; and 

 'I we have every reason to believe that future years will be quite as pro- 

 "^ lific as the past have been. Probably not half the fossil species belong- 

 •s mg to the "Cincinnati group" have yet been found and described. 

 r\ Here, then, is a field that will continue for a long time to come to 

 (V^ attract the attention of the paleontologists, not only of our own country 

 but those abroad, with an increasing interest, as every new species is 

 C^ found, figured and described. What is here said in regard to paleon- 

 ^ tological discoveries may be repeated as to nearly every other branch 

 CJ^ of natural history. 



'^" Li such a locality as this the schools should afford every facility for 



r?. the acquirement of a knowledge of the objects that surround us, and 



I' .a. journal devoted to the publication of scientific matters pertaining to 



the locality ought to be supported by able correspondents and willing 



