THE JOURNAL 



OF J HE 



Cincinnati oociety of Natural History. 



VOL IX. CINCINNATI, JANUARY, 1886. No. 4. 



PROCEEDINGS. 



Business Meeting, Tuesday, October 4. 



President Dim in the chair, ])resent sixteen members. 



Miss Clara B. Fletcher, Miss x\manda Frank, Miss Laura J. 

 Frank, Mr. Herbert Jenny, and Dr. M. H. Fletcher were proposed 

 for membership. 



Miss Emjly Hopkins, Miss MoUie Geoghehan, Mr. Theodore 

 P. Anderson, Mr. Horace P. Smith, and Dr. John D. Jones were 

 elected active members. 



The minutes of the Executive Board for Ai)ril, May, June, and 

 July were read. 



Mr. Twitchell read a paper upon " Noctoc pruniforme." 



A meeting of the Botanical Section was announced for Octo- 

 ber 1 6th. 



At the request of the Society, the Chair appointed Dr. Wm. 

 Carson a committee of one to report a notice for publication in the 

 Journal of Mr. John B. Clunet, and Prof. Joseph F. James a 

 notice of Mr. E. S. Comings, both kxtely deceased members. 



The Secretary called attention to specimens of Gentiana 

 crinita and G. Andrewsii, exhibited by Dr. Norton and Mr. 

 Warder. 



The President was authorized to sign, for the Society, an invi- 

 tation to the International Congress of Geologists, to meet in the 

 United States in 1888. 



On motion of Prof. George W. Harper, Prof. A. G. Wetherby 

 was invited to read a paper on the Conchology of the Roan Moun- 

 tain region of Tennessee and North Carolina. 



