Proceedings of the Society. I I 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE DEATH OF DR. 

 A. E. HEIGH WAY. 



Your Committee respectfully report : 



Dr. A. E. Heighway was, as a lover and investigator of Natu- 

 ral History, identified With the Association in that department of 

 science in Cincinnati prior to the organization of this, the present 

 Society, into which the collections of that Association merged. 

 Though not on the original roll of the present organization, he be- 

 came a member of the Society in the second year thereafter — on 

 the 2nd day of January, 1872 — and from that time on until the 

 (late of his decease was a constant member and attendant on the 

 meetings of the Society, its true friend and a frequent contributor 

 of specimens and interesting suggestions in its various departments 

 of research. 



The passing away of this, one of our oldest members, is to be 

 more especially noticed inasmuch as he was identified with the 

 origin of our city, as belonging to its pioneer families. His father 

 was John Heighway, who served through the war of 181 2. His 

 mother was Mary Mercer, daughter of General Mercer, a Revolu- 

 tionary hero. Of these parents Dr. A. E. Heighway was born in 

 the city of Cincinnati, Dec. 26, 1820. Educated as a physician 

 in 1842, under Dr. J. T. Shotwell, he afterward served as Surgeon 

 in the Mexican War. Though retired from the practice of his 

 profession for many years, he always retained a decided interest in 

 it, and at the time of his death was Vice-President of the Hamilton 

 County Medical Society. He continued the military career of his 

 family by rendering service as Surgeon on the Union side in the 

 late Rebellion, and at the time of his decease was a member of 

 the Army of the Tennessee. W. W. Dawson. 



Jas. W. Abert. 

 R. M. Byrnes. 

 J. R. Skinner. 

 Wm. H. Knight. 



The report was accepted and ordered spread upon the minutes. 



A request from the Commissioners of the Centennial Exposi- 

 tion to the Society to make a display in the Educational Depart- 

 ment was read. President Skinner stated that the matter had been 

 discussed at the last meeting of the Executive Board, where the 

 opinion prevailed that a display should be made, and he (Mr. Skin- 

 ner) had been appointed a committee, choosing as co-laborers the 



