1 6 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. 



The report of the Curator of Mineralogy was read and 

 accepted. 



By motion, duly seconded and carried, 1 )r. () I). Norton 

 was made a committee of one to present the thanks of the Society 

 to Mrs. E. W. Wayne for the generous gift to its museum of her 

 late husband"'s collection of minerals and natural history speci- 

 mens. 



The Society then adjourned. 



The donations for the month were as follows ; From E. O. 

 Ulrich, contributions to Am. Paleontology, vol. i, May, 1886; 

 from the Division of Entomology of the Department of Agricul- 

 ture, Bulletins Nos. 8 and 11; from Yale College, Report of 

 Observatory, 1884-85; from Chief Signal Officer, Weather Review, 

 March, 1886; from Smithsonian Institution, Report 1884; from 

 Carlos Shepard, skull from mound on Big Miami; from U. P. 

 James, stem of Aralia spinosa; from Jacob S. Burnet, specimen of 

 Bilostoma grandis; from Mrs. U. P. James, larvai of beetles; 

 from Mrs. M. Cassily, three specimens coccoons Cecropia Moth ; 

 from John C. Branner, 'M. D., pamphlet on Glaciation of Wyom- 

 ing and Lackawanna Valleys; from E. D. Cope, three pamphlets; 

 from United States Geological Survey, Bulletins Nos. 24, 25 and 

 26; from Chas. E. A. Ryder, wasp's nest from Buenos Ayres ; 

 from Dr. O. D. Norton, accretion from sparks in sawing steel; 

 from Zoological Garden, one Lop-eared Rabbit, one Barred Owl, 

 one Black Howling Monkey. 



