THE JOURNAL 



CENCINNATI, JANUARY, 1881. 



VOL. iir, 



No. 4. 



PBOCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 



Tuesday Evening, October 5, 1880. 



Dr. R. M. B^'rnes, President, in the chair. Present, 20 members. 



Dr. Charles P. Wilson was elected a member of the Society. 



Prof. G. W. Harper spoke of the multitude of a species of beetle of 

 the f ami 1}^ Scarabidce, which he observed near Newcastle, Indiana, and 

 of the terrible slaughter they made of each other in the wars which he 

 saw prevailing among them. 



Dr. F. W. Langdon read, by title, a paper on the Mammalia of the 

 vicinity of Cincinnati. 



The caves of Kentucky and Indiana, and the forces which exca- 

 vated them, were considered and discussed by several members. 



Donations were received as follows : 



From E. R. Quick, a specimen of Synaptomys cooper i^ collected near 

 Brookville, Indiana; from Dr. A. E. Heigh way, apiece of wood from 

 the blue cla}^ of the Drift, near Oxford, Ohio, from Rev. G. W. Dubois, 

 a beetle, Collosoma scrutator ; from W. C. Egan, of Chicago, 111., 

 specimens of Eucalyptocrinus depressiis. 



Tuesday Evening, November 2, 1880. 



Dr. R. M. Byrnes, President, in the chair. Present, 24 members. 



Joseph F. James read a paper by Dr. Warder, relating to the 

 general appearance of the woods, as noticed in Kentucky and Ten- 

 nessee, while passing in a train over the Cincinnati Southern Rail- 

 road. 



Prof. J. W. Hall, Jr., read a communication upon the donation to 

 the Society of a large collection of Coal Measure fossil plants, by the 

 oflScers of the Rockwood Furnace, Roan count}^ Tennessee. 



Donations were received as follows : 



Irom Robert Clarke, the followina^ books : The Lake Dwellins^s of 



