2 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. 



Scientific Meeting, February 5, 1889. 



Vice-President Wm. Hubbell Fisher in the chair. 



The minutes of the December scientific meeting were read and 

 approved. 



The following persons were proposed for active membership : 



Jos. Eichberg, Mrs. Herbert Jenney, Wm. McMiller, Geo. B. 

 McMiller, R. A. Holden, A. L. Fogg, G. A. Bowen, Wm. Simpkin- 

 son, Robt. Newlin, W. C. Emerson, Dr. Wm. Owen, Jr., E. S. But- 

 ler, H. T. Smith, Alfred Petry, Geo. Leach, Dr. A. Hoeltge, Wm. 

 Porter Davis, Aaron Prince, Clarence Bartlett, Mrs. A. B. Thrasher, 

 W. St. J. Jones, J. M. Cochran, E. H. Barton, John M. Kay, E. E. 

 Shipley, C. J. Strong, H. Gibert, W. Boone, C. H. Sheen, M. A. 

 High, H. J. Buntin, Wm. A. Gamble, R. T. Dickson, Miss Louise 

 Devereux, Wm. Holden, Howard Carey, John A. Krumme, Jr. 



The following were elected to active membership : 



Edward O. Uirich. Silas T. Jennings, E, A. Daumont, and Russell 

 Hinman. 



Mr. John Monteith, having just returned from Europe, made some 

 remarks on foreign museums of Natural History. 



Dr. A. J. Howe read a paper by title on " Heredity." 



Horace P. Smith read a paper by Wm. T. Moorehead on the 

 " Excavation of the Porter Mound/' 



Wm. P. Anderson was elected a Trustee in place of Julius Dexter, 

 resigned. 



Donations were received as follows : 



From Mrs. Chas. A. Parke, Owen's Geological Survey of Wiscon- 

 sin, Iowa and Minnesota ; from O. P. Jenkins and B. W. Ever- 

 mann, Descriptions of Fishes from Gulf of California. 



Adjourned. 



Scientific Meeting, March 5, 1889. 



President J. Ralston Skinner in the chair. 



Horace P. Smith acting Secretary in the absence of Dr. J. A. 

 Henshall, in Florida. 



The minutes of the February scientific meeting were read, and 

 after correction, approved. 



The room was well filled by members and visitors. 



Dr. A. J. Howe read a paper on " Heredity. 1 " 



Dr. Davis L. James read by title the following papers: "Notes 

 upon a Collection of Shells from Borneo, with descriptions of New 

 Species," by T. H. Aldrich; and a "Monograph of the Lycoper- 

 daceae of the United States," by A. P. Morgan. 



