58 Cincinnati Soctety of Natural Fitstory. 
ors of Zoological Garden, U. S. National Museum, Miss Julia 
Akerly, Walter Crane, C. G. Lloyd, Big Four Railroad, Dr. A. B. 
Carnahan, H. A. Smith, Wilfred Guild, Mr. Francis, Jacob Hoff- 
ner, U. S. Fish Commission, H. T. Woodman, Prof. G. F. Wright 
and P. D. Breed. 
In response to my personal application, the United States Fish 
Commission is now making up a large and fine collection of 
marine invertebrates, to be forwarded as soon as we have room for 
them. This fine donation will be furnished entirely free of all 
expense to the Society. 
I have also added a number of species and many examples to 
the collection of Ohio fishes and reptiles and batrachians, so that 
we now have nearly all the fishes, and a good beginning for the 
collection of Ohio reptiles and amphibians. | 
I am daily expecting a series of Florida fishes, being part of the 
collection I obtained last winter for the United States Fish Com- 
mission,a gift from that institution. 
I shail at once begin to make a permanent catalogue, museum 
registers and accession lists of all the specimens in the collections, 
with card catalogues to correspond as indices to the same. 
During the year there have been two new book-cases added to 
the library, so that there is now ample room for our extensive col- 
lection of books. A new arrangement and proper classification of 
the books is much needed, and should be done when the new 
library room is completed. You are referred to the last number of 
the JouRNAL for a list of the books added during the year; as an 
addendum to that list, however, I will mention donations from the 
following persons: Dr. O. D. Norton, Wm. Doherty, E. D. Cope, 
Dr. E. G. Betty, Chas. E. Beecher, Hon. Ben Buttenwornyauis: 
War Department, Dr. A. G. Brinton, State Board of Health of Ten- 
nessee, Bureau of Ethnology, S. A. Forbes, United States Fish 
Commission, Bureau of Agriculture, Dr. Zucchinetti, J. S. New- 
berry, the Smithsonian Institution. 
Respectfully submitted, J. A. HENSHALL, 
Custodian. 

