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Bullock; Curator of Conchology, Mrs. M. C. Morehead ; Curator 

 of Microscopy, George B. Twiichell ; Librarian. Prof. George W. 

 Harper. 



The resignations of Messrs. G. N. Merryweather and \\'illiam 

 Lytle Foster were received and accepted. 



The Annual Election was then announced, and the chair ap- 

 pointed Messrs. Karl Langenbeck and H. P. Smith, tellers. 



The following officers were then elected to serve for one year : 



President, J. Ralston Skinner; First ^^ice-President, William 

 Hubbell Fisher; Second Vice-President, Davis L. James; Treas- 

 urer, S. E Wright; Secretary, William H. Knight. 



Members at large for the Executive Board : 



VV, A. Dun, M. D., George Bullock, Prof. George W. Harper, 

 F. W. Langdon, M. D. 



Librarian, Miss Nettie Fillmore. Trustee tor two years, Julius 

 Dexter. 



The election of Curators was postponed to the next meeting. 



Mr. Fisher moved that the thanks of the society be tendered 

 to Dr. Dun for his efficient services during the past year. Carried. 



The society then adjourned. 



Donations for the month were as follows : 



From Dr. W. A. Dun, plate of "Cincinnati Wat bier'" 

 framed; from F. \V. Langdon, beetle; from Prof. J. W. Hall, 

 Naturalist's Directory 1884, Ohio Centennial Report; from 

 Henry A. Shepherd, " Antiquities of the State of Ohio," from 

 Capt. M. M. Murphy, Ripley, O., Mastodon tooth, five stone 

 axes, twenty-four flint arrow-heads, three rough agates, miscella- 

 neous fossils; from J. G. Shepherd, Mason, O., miscellaneous 

 fossils and fungi ; from Lars Sundt, mammoth tooth. 



Scientific Meeting, May 3, 1887. 



President Skinner in the chair ; twenty-four members present. 



The minutes of the March meeting were read and approved. 



A communication from E. W. Claypole thanking the society 

 for his election to honorary membership was read. Also, from 

 Messrs. O. P. Hay and Stephen D. Peet, returning thanks for 

 their election to corresponding membership. 



Dr. O. D. Norton read an interesting letter from a friend who 

 had been examiming the j)hosphate works near Beaufort, S. C. 



