ABSTRACT OF PAPERS AND PROCEEDINGS. 



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Organization of the Society, 3-4 



Constitution of tlie Society,.. 5-6 



List of Members, '^-^ 



By-Laws, lO-H 



Election of Officers, 1847, 12 



Notice of in "Annals of Science," 13 



Proceedings, 1853, 14 



Pocilosoma Erythrogastrum, (Prof. J. P. Kirtland,) 15 



Diurnal Lepidoptera of Northern Ohio, (J. P. Kirtland,) 17-25 



Coal Plants of Ohio, (J. S. Newberry,) 26-53 



Limnea Megasoma, " 53 



Election and Proceedings, 1853, 54 



Sorex and Psaronius, 55 



Officers for 1854 and Proceedings, 56 



Alburnus, --- 57 



Hypnum, 57 



Generation- of Fishes, - 57 



The Ocean, Lecture by Prof. Jehu Brainerd, 57-64 



Generation of Salmonidse, (Dr. T. Garlick,) _ 64 



Mosses in the vicinity of Cleveland, (Prof. J. Lang Cassels,) 65-74 



Alburnus Nitidus, (Kirtland,) -- 74 



Artificial Fish Breeding, (Garlick,).. - 75 



Proceedings, 76 



Vegetation of the Drift Period, (Newberry,) 76-78 



Coal Cut Out by Drift Timber, (Morris Miller,) 78-80 



Analysis of Ohio Coals, (Newberrj^,) 80-82 



Genus Esox in Ohio, (Kirtland, )__ 83-85 



Proceedings, February 14, 1854, 85 



Artificial Production of Fishes, (Garlick,).. 86-91 



Proceedings, February 21, 1854, - 91 



Proceedings, March 14, 1854, _ - 92 



Corresponding Menrbers, - --- 93 



Proceedings, March 21, 1854, 93 



Vanessa Furcillata, (Dr. Thaddeus W. Harris,) 94-95 



Alburnus Acutus, (Dr. I. A. Lapham,) - 96 



Proceedings, March 28, 1854, 97 



Proceedings, April 5, 12 and 17,1854, 97 



Photographs by the use of Collodion, (Prof. H. L. Smith,) 97 



Origin of Names for Days of the Week, (Smith,) 98 



Allegheny Coal Field, (Chas. Whittlesey,) 99-113 



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