THE JOURNAL 



OF THE 



\m § ITiil EISII 



VOL. III. 



CINCINNATI, OCTOBER, 1880. 



No. 3. 



PJtOGEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 



Tuesday Evening, July 6, 1880. 



Dr. R. M. Bj-rnes, President, in the chair. Present, 21 members. 



Dr. Reuben A. Vance was elected a member of the Society. 



Dr. A. J. Howe, Prof. G. W. Harper and Dr. D. So Young were ap- 

 pointed a committee to report upon the feasibility of adding an 

 aquarium to the Museum. 



Prof. Ormond Stone, Dr. A. J. Howe and Dr. A. E. Heighwa^^ were 

 appointed a committee to take such steps as may be necessary for ex- 

 tending an invitation to the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science, to hold its regular annual meeting, for the year 1881, 

 in this cit}^ 



Donations were received as follows: 



From W. C. Egan, of Chicago, 111., specimens of Myelodactylus 

 hrldfjeportensis and Eiicalyptocrinus {Hypanthoc^nmis) egani, from 

 the Niagara Group at Bridgeport, 111., both of which were described in 

 the July number of this Journal. 



From Prof. Wm. L. Dudley, of the Miami Medical College, a col- 

 lection of minerals and fossils, consisting of a thousand or more 

 specimens. 



