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third article on the " Mycologic Flora of the Miami \'alley," by 

 Mr. A. P. Morgan, has also been continued through several vol- 

 umes, generally with one or two installments a year, but its author 

 is still at work. These three are the only articles which have re- 

 mained so far unfinished. 



The Journal as whole may be taken as re[)resenting fairly the 

 amount of scientific work done in this locality during the past ten 

 years. And though Cincinnati has never laid claim to being a 

 scientific center, the showing is not a bad one. One thing is to be 

 noted. Many of the contributors to the early numbers of the 

 Journal, indeed, 1 may say nearly all of them, have dropped 

 away. Some are dead; more seem to have ceased their labors, or 

 if they still continue, find places of publication elsewhere. Their 

 place has been taken by another set of workers, who are, generally 

 speaking, engaged in other branches besides that of describing new 

 species of fossils. 



Mr. D. L. James stated on behalf of the Publishing Commit- 

 tee that Prof. James' offer to index the first ten volumes of the 

 Journal had been accepted by the Committee, and the work nad 

 already begun. 



Another communication by Prof James was then read, as 

 follows : 



To the President and Alenibers of the Ciueinnati Society of Natural 



History : 

 Sir, Ladies and Gentlemen: 



The suggestion embodied in a paragrajjh of my remarks on 

 the Journal of this Society has since seemed to me worthy of 

 further elaboration, and I beg to call attention to it for another 

 purpose. I refer to the remarks relative to reprinting the catalogues 

 of birds, plants, etc., of this locality which have at times apjieaied 

 in the Journal. 



We have lately lost one of our former presidents, and in him 

 one of the most active and enthusiastic members of the Society. 

 It seems to me that a memorial to the late Dr. Walter A. Dun 

 would be the proper thing for the Society to publish, and 1 wc uld 

 suggest the following as matter for the memorial volume : 



Let it contain a portrait and a sketch of his lile. Let there 

 then follow in regular order catalogues of the fossils, plants, birds, 

 mammals, shells, etc., etc., found in the vicinity of our city, ac- 

 companied by notes, or, better still, by short descriptions of the 



