12 Cincinimti Society of Natural History. 



300 botanical plates, 300 species minerals, 50 specimens fossils, a 

 lot of unbound magazines; from Division of Entomology, Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, Bulletin No. 11; from Dr. (). D. Norton 

 Eaton's Botany North America; from Robt. Ridgeway Stejneger's 

 Explorations of Commander Islands and Kamtschatka ; from 

 James W. Queen & Co. Microscopical Bulletin No. 6 ; from I. C. 

 Reeve Abbreviations in the Geological Record; from Department 

 of Agriculture, per Geo. Vasey, 128 species American Grasses. 



Special Mketing Tuesday, April 16, 1886. 



Dr. Dun presided, and Prof. Geo. VV. Harper read a rei)ort 

 upon "Granite used for paving in the city streets." The paper 

 was followed by an interesting discussion, in which the invited 

 guests of the Society took part. The ])roceedings of the meeting 

 were fully reported with an exhaustive abstract of the i)a])er in the 

 daily ])a])ers of the next morning. 



Scientific Meeting, Tuesday, May 4, 1886. 



Vice President Fisher in the chair. Fifteen members present. 



The minutes of the meeting for March were read and 

 approved, 



Mr. Fisher called attention to the omission of the words "of 

 April" in Section I,, Article 3, of the printed copy of the revised 

 constitution . 



Prof. Jos. F. James read a papei on the " Geology of Cin- 

 cinnati." 



Dr. Dun, the President, now took the chair. 



Prof. Harper, the retiring President, then read his annual 

 address. 



The following persons were nominated for active member- 

 ship : Miss M. Therese Davis, Miss Katharine M. lAipton, Mr. 

 and Mrs. R. F. Leaman, Mr. Wm. Gibson, Miss Mary Osborn, 

 M. D., Miss Ida Murdoch, Mr. Chas. Goepper. 



Meml)ers were elected as follows : Miss Ellen M. Patrick, 

 Miss Mary E. Magurk, Miss Mary Stettinius, Miss Lily Hollings- 

 head, Mrs. A. T. Keckeler, Lawrence Poland, Alfred Gaither, 

 H. C. Powers, Dr. E. W. Walker. 



The Custodian announced that a case of minerals showing 

 granites and their constituents had been prepared for exhil)ition in 

 the Chamber of Commerce. 



