56 Cincinnati Society of Natural Histoiy. 



Curator of Osteology, Dr. O. D. Norton. 



" " Anthropology, Dr. W. A. Dun. 



" " Photography, D. W. Huntington. 



" " Meteorology, Prof. G. W. Harper. 



" " Microscopy, Dr. Charles E. Caldwell. 



" " Physics and Chemistry, Dr. W. S. Christopher. 



" " Ornithology, Charles Dury. 



" " Conchology, Mrs. M. C. Morehead. 



Donations for the month were as follows : P>om C. L. Faber, 

 specimens agatizedwood and rough agates, gold ore, crystalized 

 pulin wood, septaria, fluorite, opalized-wood, carnelian wood, 

 chlorastrolite, amazon stone, natrolite, aragonite, silver ore, mala- 

 chite, amethyst; from Davis L.James, Ohio Agricultural Report 

 1873? '77 ^"d '7S (2 vols.), Ohio Railway Report 1874, Report of 

 Department of Agriculture 1871, Ohio Statistics 1874, Land Office 

 Report 1876; from Prof. P. Herbert Carpenter, Eton College, 

 Note on Structure of Crotalocrinus, Carpenter (pamphlet) ; from 

 Miss L. C. Smith, specimens of Marine Shells, Beetle. 



Adjourned. 



Scientific Meeting, ///;/(• 7, 1887. 



President Skinner in the chair, twenty-three members present. 



The minutes of May were read and approved. 



The resignation of Mr. George Bullock, Member at Large of 

 the Executive Board, was received and accepted. 



Mr. Allen Collier resigned his membership in the society. 



Dr. Walter A. Dun read his address as retiring President. 

 His topic was "The Identification of the UticS. Shales at Cincin- 

 nati." Sections of several of the deep wells recently drilled near 

 Cincinnati were shown, and a large number of drillings from va- 

 rious wells exhibited.* 



Mr. Davis L. James read a paper by Prof. Joseph F. James, 

 of Oxford, Ohio, giving an account of a deep well recently drilled 

 at Oxford. The drillers reached 1,345 feet, when the well was 

 abandoned, with 180 feet of water in the hole. 



The following persons, were proposed for election to active 

 membership : 



John Monteith, Dr. T. A. Reamy, ^\'arren T. Morehead, 

 Dr. E. G. Betty, Miss Belle Woods, Miss Louise Stewart, Miss 



* Note— Dr. Dun's paper will appear in a future number of tliis Journal. 



