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Cincinnati Society of Natural History. 



During the year some rare and valuable mounted specimens have been 

 added to the museum of the second floor. Among the additions may be men- 

 tioned a young jaguar, a large kangaroo, Malayan sun bear, a genet, a 

 civet, bush cat, African porcupine, tree porcupine, armadillo, albino rac- 

 coon, axis deer, fawn of hog deer, prairie hare, group of monkeys, etc. 



It would be well for the library to buy the "Standard Natural History," 

 a book of six volumes, the cost of which would be twenty-five or thirty 

 dollars. 



The above is respectfully submitted. A. J. Howe. 



Cincinnati, April 1, 1884. 



Society of Natural History : 



The collection has been named as far as possible, and is arranged in one of 

 the cases so as to be seen to the best advantage. 

 Three new specimens have been added. 



Very respectfully, A. E. Heighway, Jr., 



Curator of Herpetology. 



Report of the Custodian of the Cincinnati Society of Natural 



History. 



To the President and Members of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History : 

 In accordance with the usual custom, your Custodian presents the follow- 

 ing report of work done during the year ending April 1, 1884. As the 

 curators of the various departments have presented their several reports, 

 but little remains to be said, and it will be said briefly : 



The time has been largely spent in cataloguing and arranging the speci- 

 mens already in the cases, and placing the additions in their respective 

 departments. A card catalogue of the Ichthyological collection has been 

 completed, and in such a way that the descriptions of the different species 

 can be readily consulted. A plan of an accession catalogue has been 

 adopted, and it is the purpose to enter in this all the new specimens re- 

 ceived, designating each with a number so that its history will not be lost. 

 Uncatalogued specimens of the museum will also be entered in this book, 

 so that eventually everything will be found here. This plan is subsidary 

 to a card catalogue, however, as the last is the only true way of keeping an 

 account of the specimens in the different departments of the museum. 



The additions to the various departments have been referred to by their 

 several curators. They have not been as numerous as might be wished, 

 but in the Library the additions have been important. New names of 



