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Messrs. Dury and Langdon requested that facts and short arti- 

 cles for a Zoological Miscellany for the Journal be sent in. 



Donations were announced as follows, and the Society ad- 

 journed . 



From Bureau of Education, Circular of Information, No. 

 5, 1885; from Forum Publishing Co., "The Forum," 

 vol. I, No. i; from Publishers, "American Sportsman," June 19, 

 1886; from Chief Signal Officer, Monthly Weather Review for 

 April; from Director of Geol. Survey of India, Records of Geol. 

 Survey of India, vol. 19, Part 2 ; from Jos. F. James, the 

 "Weather Journal," Nos. i, 3, 4, 5, 6; from Carlos Shepard, 

 Bone and Pottery from mouth of East Fork, L. M. R., Flints from 

 same. Spear Point from Clermont Co., O.; from Dr. O. D. Norton, 

 Seeds of Sorghum vulgare, Oriza sativa, Melia Azederach ; from 

 Wm. H. Knight, Flammarion's " Wonders of the Heavens"; from 

 U. S. Fish Commissioner, Bulletin of U. S. F. C, vol. 6, Nos. 4 

 to 8; H. H. G. Smith, specimen of Cecropia Moth; from F. W. 

 Langdon, M. D. specimen of Trox sp.; from' Mrs. Wm. Andrews, 

 Twelve Volumes of Books; from U. S. Geol. Survey, Monographs, 

 vol. 9; from Geo. S. Huntington, Star Fish and Echinoderms from 

 Florida, one Trunk Fish. 



Adjourned. 



Scientific Meeting, Tuesday, Aiii^^i/sf t„ 1886. 



President Dun in the chair. Twenty members present. 



Prof. Jos. Y. James read his paper on the " Topography of 

 Cincinnati," presented by title at the July meeting. 



Mr. Wm. H, Knight read a paper on " Photographing the 

 Stars; recent discoveries in the Plieades." 



Dr. Dun calling Prof. James to the platform presented, with 

 appropriate remarks, an engrossed copy of the following "Testi- 

 monial ": 



" This Testimonial is presented to Prof. Jos. F. James by the 

 Cincinnati Society of Natural History, on his resignation ot the pos- 

 ition of Custodian, which office he has efficiently and faithfully oc- 

 cupied from 1 88 1 to 1886— always conscientiously attending to his 

 multiform duties, furthering the interests of the society and gaining 

 the good-will of the members by his agreeable demeanor and his 

 uniform willingness to oblige. He takes with him to his new sphere 

 of usefulness as Professor of P>otany and Geology at the Miami 



