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amounted to $1G0 00, and that there had been expended $165 17, 

 leaving a balance due the Treasurer of $5 17. The library was re- 

 ported as containing thirty-five volumes. Previous to this meeting 

 there had been procured for the Society five upright cases, all of which 

 the custodian reported were well filled b}^ the specimens of Natural 

 History, which had been donated hy members of the Society. At this 

 meeting the officers were elected for the 3'^ear, with the following changes : 

 Mr. Ludlow Apjones was elected second vice-president; Mr. L. S. Cotton 

 was elected corresponding secretary, and continued to be re-elected 

 annually, and served until April 6th, 1875; Rev. R. E. Hawley, as re- 

 cording secretary, in which position he served for two years. Mr. 

 Horatio Wood was elected treasurer, and was continued in the office 

 until he declined to serve longer, April 4, 1875. Dr. H, H. Hill, ac- 

 cepted the position of libi'arian, and was re-elected April 2, 1872, and 

 April 1, 1873. Prof. John M. Edwards was elected custodian, and 

 was continued in the position for two 3^ears. Dr. R. M. Byrnes was 

 elected curator of mineralogy, which position he has held to the pres- 

 ent time. The fine collection and careful arrangment of the minerals 

 in the possession of the Society bear witness to the intelligent and 

 faithful work of this officer. Mr. Samuel A. Miller was elected cura- 

 tor of palteoutology, and was subsequently re-elected and continued 

 in the curatorship until April 7, 1874 ; Dr. H. H. Hill, curator of 

 conchology, who was re-elected the following year ; Mr. Lucius Cur- 

 tis, curator of entomology, who was continued in office until April 1, 

 1873 ; Dr. William Owens, of botan^^ ; and Mr. Charles Dury, taxi- 

 dermist, who was twice re-elected, and continued in office until the 

 position was abolished in April, 1874, and the curatorship of ornitho- 

 logy instituted. 



The donations of specimens in the various departments of Natural 

 Science, being numerous at every meeting, it was found necessary to 

 provide additional cases for preserving the collections. At the meeting- 

 held June 6, 1871, five new upright cases, uniform with those previ- 

 oush^ in the possession of the Society, were procui'ed. 



At the meeting held September 5, 1871, the Society received from 

 the Western Academy of Natural Science, three hundred and fifty-one 

 dollars in mone3', 265 volumes of books, and the relianant of its 

 collection, being all of its propert}^ and effects of every kind then 

 remaining. The mone^^ was invested, and has remained at interest 

 since that time. Mr. S. A. Miller read a paper on the " Silurian Island 

 of Cincinnati," which was published the next da3^ in the Cincinnati 

 Elnquirer. 



At the meeting held on the second da}" of Januar}^, 1872, the Society 

 received from Mr. Robert Buchanan, 111 volumes from hislibrarj^ and 

 three upright cases with drawers, containing fossils, shells and minerals. 



