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Treasufer's report that tliere were 117 members of the Society, that the 

 (lues collected for the year amounted to $110 36, that the expenses had 

 been $;}2-l 93, and that there remained in the Treasury the sum of 

 $122 12, not including the funds received from the Western Acatlem^- of 

 Science. At this meeting, Mi*. John M. Edwards was elected recording- 

 secretary; Mr. R. B. Moore, custodian, which position he continued to 

 till until elected president, April 3, 1877; Dr. Charles A. Miller, curator 

 of conchology, vvho was re-elected the following year; Mr. V. T. Cham- 

 bers, curator of entomology; Mr. John Hussey, curator of botany; Dr. 

 D. S. Young, curator of ichthyology, a position he has held ever since; 

 Prof. W. H. Mussej', curator of comparative anatomy, who was re-elected 

 the following year. At this meeting, a resolution was adopted providing 

 for a committee to take charge of a building fund, having for its basis 

 the promise of a contribution of $100 00 annually for five years' from 

 Mr. -Julius Dexter, and of $25 00 per year for a like period from Prof. 

 A. J. Howe, and Mr. Ludlow Apjones, and of the sum of $10 00 for a 

 like period from Mr, A. E. Tripp and Mr. Horatio Wood. At the time 

 of the writing of this article, the Treasurer's books show that Mr. Julius 

 Dexter, and Mr. Horatio Wood, have each of them paid up the entire 

 subscription ; that Dr. Howe, and Mr. Tripp, have each paid three install- 

 ments, and Mr. Ludlow Apjones two installments, of their respective 

 subscriptions. 



At the meeting held Ma}- G, of this year, Mr. Charles H. Browning 

 presented to the Societj^ a magnificent collection of marine shells and 

 coi'als, collected by his father, Lieut. R. L. Browning, U. S. Navy. 



At the meeting held August 5, 1873, Mr. S. A. Miller read a criti- 

 cism on that part of the first volume of the Ohio Geological Survey, 

 relating to the Cincinnati Group of Rocks, and its fossil contents, which 

 was published in the Cincinnati Enquirer on the seventh day of the 

 month. 



The annual meeting in 1874 ^vas held April 7th, when it appeared, 

 from the report of Mr, R. B. Moore, the custodian, that the Society had, 

 in its collection, fort}'- five hundred specimens of minerals, two thou- 

 sand paUeontological specimens, five thousand shells, six thousand 

 I)otanical specimens, four hundred entomological specimens, two thou- 

 sand archaeological specimens, and one hundred each of anatomical, 

 ichthyological and ornithological specimens, making a grand total of 

 twenty thousand two hundred specimens. He also reported that the 

 library contained about one thousand volumes. The Treasurer's report 

 showed that the Societj' had received during the j'ear: members' dues, 

 $553 95; interest, $21 08; while it had expended $456 34, leaving in 

 the treasury the sum of $fi40 81. The report further showed that there 

 had been collected of the subscriptions to the building fund, $315 00 

 and interest accrued on the same, $11 47; making the total building 



