54 Cincinnatt Society of Natural History. 
The Committees appointed to examine the reports and accounts 
of the Treasurer and Trustees reported that the same were found 
correct. 
Several amendments to the By-Laws, in regard to the duties of 
the Secretary and Treasurer, and changing the title of ‘‘ Custo- 
dian” to ‘‘ Director of the Museum,” were adopted. 
Dr. Henshall rend by title two papers, entitled: ‘‘A Cave in the 
Clinton Formation of Ohio,” by Prof. Jos. F. James; and 
‘¢ Description of Some New Genera and Species of Echinoder- 
mata, from the Coal Measures and Subcarboniferous Rocks of 
Indiana, Missouri and Iowa,” by S. A. Miller and Wm. F. E. 
Gurley. 
Adjourned. 
REGULAR MEETING, June 3, 1890. 
President Abert in the chair. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. 
Under a suspension of the rules all of the following were elected 
to membership : 
Active members—Percy Wells, Prof. Alois Schmidt, Chas. J. 
Iredell, Frank L. Mills, L. H. Meakin, Wm. A. Haven, Joseph 
Green, Carl Lukenheimer, Paul Gillespie, Julian Wright, Dr. H. 
T. Smith, Isaac M. Jordan, Jr., Chas. J. Jennings, Chas. Fleish- 
man, Jos. C. Wright, J. W. Dennison, Edw. Cook, E. F. Rychen, 
C. Stowe Reno, W. M. Smith, L. C. Weir, S. N. Maxwell and G. 
O. Rinman. . 
Life members—— Hannaford and Ralph T. Kellogg. 
The resignations of Miss Susan Griffith, Miss Emily Hopkins and 
Omer T. Joslin were accepted. . 
Mr. Chas. Dury read a paper ‘‘ On the Occurrence of the Little 
Black Rail (Porzana jamaicensis) in Ohio,”’ and showed a specimen 
shot near Cincinnati. 
The Secretary was authorized to investigate some reputed exhu- 
mations of Indian skeletons and relics at Lawrenceburg, Indiana. 
Mr. J. Ralston Skinner gave a very interesting lecture on the 
‘‘Construction of the Alphabet,” illustrated by diagrams and lan- 
tern slides. 
Adjourned. 

