6 Cincmnati Sociefji of yaf.iiral History. 



This donation was a valuable acquisition to the Society, and was 

 ])rought about through the generosity of Mr. Probasco and nine other 

 gentlemen, who presented Mr. Buchanan with one thousand dollars as 

 a partial compensation for his parting with his collection. The Society' 

 elected Mr. Robert Buchanan an honorary member at the meeting held 

 the following month. 



The Society assembled, for the February meeting, in rooms 46 and 

 48 College Building, which had been kindly placed at its disposal b}' 

 the trustees of the Cincinnati College, and which the Society contin- 

 ued to occupy until it was able to purchase a building, and removed 

 to 108 Broadway. 



On the Sth da}'^ of March, 1872, at a regular meeting, Messrs. Rob- 

 ert Clarke, U. P. James, George Graham, I). E. BoUes, John L. Talbot. 

 S. T. Carle_y, and Robert Buchanan, surviving members of the Western 

 Academy of Science, were duly elected to life membership in this 

 Societ3^ in pursuance of the arrangement made at the time of receiving 

 the donation from the Western Academy. Mr. S. A. Miller read a 

 ])aper on the " Geological History of this Locality, from the Tertiary 

 period to the present time," — which was published in the Cincinnati 

 Enquirer of the succeeding day — and was continued at a subsequent 

 meeting of the Society, and published in the same paper on the 17th 

 day of June following. 



At the annual meeting held April 2, 1872, the report of the Treas- 

 urer showed the receipts to have been, from dues of members for the 

 preceding year, $385, and from the Western Academy of Natural Science, 

 $.351 45. Mr. Samuel A. Miller was elected second vice-president, 

 which position he continued to hold until the April meeting in 1875; 

 and Miss M. J. Pyle was elected curator of botany. 



At the meeting held June 4, 1872, Dr. Charles A. Miller was elected 

 curator of conchology, in place of Dr. H. H. Hill, who resigned; and 

 Mr. A. G. Wetherby was elected curator of entomology, instead of 

 Mr. Lucius Curtis, who had also resigned. 



The Society exhibited a large collection of specimens at the Cincin- 

 nati Industrial Exposition, held during the months of September and 

 October of this au'd the following year. At both Expositions the dis- 

 play made by this Society attracted much notice, and the section de- 

 voted to its use was generally well attended by visitors. 



At the meeting held November, 1872, Prof. W. H. Mussey presented 

 to the Society a large number of skeletons, of domesticated and wild 

 vertebrate animals. He had previously shown his generosity to the 

 Society b}' contributing books, minerals and other valuable specimens, 

 and has continued to be one of its most steadfast and liberal benefac- 

 tors down to the [) resent time. 



At the annual meeting, held April 1, 187.3, it appeared from the 



