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Cincinnali Society of Natural History 



Vol. XI. CINCINNATI, JANUARY, 1889. No. 4. 



PROCEEDINGS. 



Business Meeting, Octobe? 2, 1888. 



Vice-President Wm. Hubbell Fisher in the chair. 



Minutes of the July business meeting were read and approved. 



Minutes of the Executive Board for meetings of July, August 

 and September were read. 



Sergt. P. T. Jenkins, U. S. Signal Service, was elected to active 

 membership. 



Dr. O. D. Norton was elected Curator of Botany, in place of 

 Prof. Jos. F. James, resigned. 



Prof. Thomas Wilson, of the Smithsonian Institution, having 

 applied for the loan of certain pathological specimens of bones, the 

 matter was referred to the Curator of Anthropology, with power 

 to act. 



A very interesting collection of Archaeological and other speci- 

 mens, donated by the U. S. National Museum, were exhibited. 



Dr. Norton made some remarks on the water-plants in the foun- 

 tain at Union Square, New York. 



Wm. Norris Davis, of Philadelphia, was proposed for Corres- 

 ponding Membership, by the Executive Board. 



Dr. A. J. Howe read a paper, entitled "Depressions in the 

 Earth's Surface,'' which elicited remarks from Dr. Norton, Mr. 

 Knight and others. 



Dr. Norton exhibited a specimen of Spodumene. 



Donations were received as follows: From W. W. Dawson^ 

 M.D., City, Cocoon of Samia cecropia; from Prof. Jos. F. James, 

 diagram (in frame) of Oxford Gas Well, section of same in glass 

 tube; from L. H. Duwelius, M. D., fossil vertebrae, etc., from 

 *'Bad Lands," Dakota; from C. W. Riggs, charred grass cloth. 



Adjourned. 



