74 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. 



REPORT IN MEMORY OF ROBERT BUCHANAN. 



At the meeting of May 6, 1879, Mr. S. A. Miller moved that Geo. 

 Graham, J. A. Warder and R. B- Moore be appointed to draught a 

 report of respect to the memor}^ of Mr. Robert Buchanan, deceased* 

 which motion was adopted. At the meeting of June 3d, 1879, Mr. 

 Geo. Graham read the following report on behalf of the committee.* 



The Committee appointed at the last regular meeting of this Society to 

 prepare an obituary notice of the death, on the 23d of April last, of one of 

 our most distinguished citizens, and a life member of this Society— Mr. 

 Robert Buchanan — ask leave to report: 



That the numerous notices given of his death in the public prints, at the 

 time it occurred, and the gloom which was cast over the communitj^ by the 

 loss of such a man, is sufficient evidence of the high appreciation of his 

 virtues by the public, and his long life of usefulness in promoting the 

 general good of his fellow men, as well as the prosperity of everything con- 

 nected with their welfare. It might, therefore, be deemed unnecessary to 

 offer a tribute in this Society, so long after the public announcement of 

 the funeral; but there is a peculiar propriety in acknowledging our respect, 

 love and honor for the memory of those of our associates, whose examples 

 are most worthy of imitation, and whose lives have been in accordance with 

 those pure feelings, which we consider one of the tendencies of our pursuits 

 as members of this society to strengthen and to cherish. We, therefore, 

 feel it a duty incumbent upon us, at this meeting, to record in our proceed- 

 ings, the death of one whose example we may hold up to the consideration 

 of the rising generation, without fear that it may contain the seeds of bad 

 influence or corruption. A full history of the life of our late member would 

 in part be a repetition of what has been published and already known to our 

 members, we may, therefore, give but a sketch of the various duties and 

 offices held by him during more than sixty years of his life in this 

 community. 



Robert Buchanan was born in Westmoreland county, in Pennsylvania, 

 January 15th, 1797. In 1811 he was engaged in a store in Pittsburgh, at 

 that time a city of 5,000 inhabitants. This duty enabled young Buchanan to 

 acquire a training that prepared him for a notable career as a merchant and 



*The publication of this report has been inadvertently delayed until the present time 



