TABLE OK CONTENTS. 



Proceedings of the Society i 



Report of the Custodian 4 



Annual Address of the President 17 



Geology of Cincinnati. By Prof. Jos. F. James 20 



Lantern Slides. By E. *J- Carpenter 32 



Note on Synonym in Paleontology of the Cincinnati Group. 



By Prof. Jos. F. James 39 



Tertiary Fauna of Newton and Wautubbee, Miss., by Otto Meyer 



and T. H. Aldrich. . ., 40 



Indentification of the British Inch as the Unit of Measure of the 



Mound Builders of the Ohio Valley. . By J. Ralston 



Skinner 51 



OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY — 1886-87. 



President Walter A. Dun, M D. 



I St Vice-President, . . . Wm. Hubbell Fisher. 



2nd Vice President, . . .J. Ralston Skinner. 



Secretary, ..... Davis L. James. 

 Treasurer, . . . . . S. E. Wright. 



MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD AT LARGE. 



Rev. Raphael Benjamin. O. D. Norton, M. D. 



T. H. Kelley. Wm. H. Knight. 



LIBRARIAN. 



Jos. F. James. 



CALENDAR OF MEETINGS. 



Tuesday, July 6. — Business and Scientific Meeting. 

 Tuesday, July 20. — Executive Board Meeting. 

 Tuesday, August 3. — Scientific Meeting. 

 Tuesday, August 17. — Executive Board Meeting. 

 Tuesday, Sept. 7. — Scientific Meeting. 

 Tuesday, Sept. 21. — Executive Board Meeting. 



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Note. — Through an oversight the pasring of this number has been begun anew, in- 

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