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maim endowment and about $600 from memberships. The publica- 

 tions are supported by private contributions. 



ADMINISTRATON. By a director, responsible to an executive board 

 which is elected annually by the society. 



SCOPE. Exploration, research, and public instruction through the 

 maintenance of a museum and library. A winter course of free lectures 

 on popular science is maintained. The museum devotes special atten- 

 tion to local collections. 



LIBRARY. The library includes nearly 22,000 bound volumes and 

 pamphlets and is intended for the use of both staff and public. 



PUBLICATIONS. 21 volumes of the Journal of the Cincinnati 

 Society of Natural History have been issued since 1878. 



ATTENDANCE. Open free to the public on week-days from 8 to 5. 

 There is a registered attendance of about 2000 annually, including 

 classes from the public schools. 



GUVIER CLUB. 



The Cuvier Club was organized in 1871 chiefly for the purpose 

 of promoting the enforcement of game and fish laws, and restocking 

 the streams with food fishes and the woods and fields with game. As 

 an incident to this work it maintains a small collection of mounted 

 fishes, birds, and mammals, and a small library of natural history. 

 The collection is in charge of Charles Drury, custodian, and is open 

 free to schools and the general public. 



HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF OHIO. 

 (Burnet Woods Park.) 



In addition to a valuable historical library, this society has a 

 small collection of Indian relics and a number of historical portraits, 

 but does not endeavor to develop a formal museum. 



LLOYD LIBRARY AND MUSEUM. 



This institution is the outgrowth of the private libraries and col- 

 lections of Curtis Gates Lloyd and John Uri Lloyd, the former sup- 

 porting the botanical department, the latter the pharmaceutical. It 

 is now incorporated as a free public institution for the benefit of 

 science, and is housed in two four-story fireproof buildings. The first 

 of these, erected in 1902, contains the herbarium and mycological 

 collection, in charge of W. H. Aiken, curator. The general herbarium 

 comprises about 30,000 specimens, while the mycological collection, 

 second to none in the world, contains many thousand dried specimens, 



