84 The Zoological Society of Cincinnati. 



Joseph Longworth, President; J. Simpkinson, Vice-President; 

 Cleaaiens Oskamp, Treasurer ; Charles P. Taft, Eecording Secretary ; 

 and A. Tenner, Corresponding Secretary. Messrs. Juhus Dexter, 

 Charles P. Taft, and A. Tenner, were appointed a committee to draft 

 a constitution and l3y-laws for the Society, who submitted the results 

 of their labor at a meeting called for the purpose, August 15th, and 

 the same were finally adopted by the Society, at the first regular 

 annual meeting of stockholders thereafter, on January 5th, 1874. 

 From the constitution, as adopted, Ave make the following extracts : 



" Sec. 1. The name of the Society shall be ' The Zoological Society 

 of Cincinnati.' 



" Sec. II. The object of the Society shall be .the establishment and 

 maintenance of a Zoological Garden at Cincinnati, and the study and 

 dissemination of knowledge of the nature and habits of creatures of 

 the animal kingdom. 



"Sec. XVI. Stockholders shall be entitled to receive for each 

 share of stock up to the number of five, twenty single tickets of ad- 

 mission each year, or one season ticket. All season tickets shall be 

 issued in the name of a particular person, which shall be registered, 

 and any season ticket presented by any other person than the one to 

 whom it is issued, shall be forfeited," etc. 



At the same meeting, a new election of officers being required by 

 the constitution annually, Messrs. Longworth, Shoeuberger, Dexter, 

 Taft, Horton, Simpkinson, Erkenbrecher, Mohlenhoff, and Pfirmann, 

 were elected directors, to serve for the terms of one, two, and three 

 years, respectively ; and upon the organization of the Board of Direc- 

 tors, the following named gentlemen were elected officers for the year 

 1874, viz.: Geo. K. Shoenberger, President ; A. Erkenbrecher, Vice- 

 President ; Charles P. Taft, Secretary ; Clemens Oskamp, Treasurer ; 

 and A. Tenner, Corresponding Secretary. 



On April 27, 1874, Julius Dexter was elected President of the As- 

 sociation, vice Geo. K. Shoenberger, resigned ; and subsequently, C. 

 Oskamp, was elected a director, vice S. D. Horton, resigned. 



As will be seen from the foregoing summary of its history and organi- 

 zation, the Zoological Society is a strictly private enterprise, not in 

 any way dependent upon municipal aid for its existence or success. 

 Many years, and a large expenditure of money, will be required for 

 the full development of the plans acbpted, but with the means already 

 secured, the society will be enabled so far to complete the improve- 

 ment of the site selected, as to open its Garden to the inspection of the 

 public in the summer of 1875, with a collection of animals larger than 

 is possessed by any other society in this country. 



