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Cincinnati Society of Natural History. 



In France, at Paris, plants were cultivated to serve as patterns to Court 

 embroiderers. 



In Europe generally, so universally acknowledged is the value of botanic 

 gardens for the culture and industrial education of the people, that scarce 

 a city of any size, is without its public garden. Even the antagonistic 

 climates of St. Petersburg, Moscow, Warsaw and Finland have been 

 noted for their botanic gardens. We should have them as adjuncts to 

 the Zoological Garden and the Cincinnati Museum. 



That great and noble patriot, Washington, shortly previous to his death, 

 wrote to Congress recommending the establishment of a university at the 

 Seat of Government; and in this document he said: "I conceive that a 

 botanical garden would be a good appendage to a university." 



Mr. George P. Handy was proposed for regular membership. 



Prof. A. D. Morrill was elected a regular member. 



The Secretary stated that the communication of Mr. Charles Dury, re- 

 ceived at a late meeting of the Society and referred to the Executive 

 Board, had been received by the Board and a committee appointed. The 

 Board of Exposition Commissioners had resolved to donate a large collec- 

 tion of Colorado minerals to the Society, and they would soon be in the 

 museum. 



The Custodian stated that the collection consisted of a large mass of 

 material, chiefly ores from Colorado, and would be examined and sorted as 

 soon as possible. 



The donations for the month were announced as follows : . From D. L. 

 James, Reports of Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1863-1869 ; seeds of 

 Anemone Virginiana, Gleditschia triacanthos; from Thomas Paxton, 

 Bubo Virginianus ; from W. W. Thompson, Proceedings of American As- 

 sociation for the Advancement of Science, 1883; from J. Ralston Skinner^ 

 Stevens' Flint Chips ; from Chief Signal Officer, Monthly Weather Review 

 August, 1884 ; from S. T. Carley, three species of shells ; from Central 

 Ohio Scientific Association, Proceedings, Vol. I., Part 2; from U. S. 

 Naval Observatory, Vol. XXVII. Astronomical and Meteorological Ob- 

 servations ; from Mrs. May and Miss Virginia Bowers, War Club from 

 Sandwich Islands; from G. Kjerulf, Pods of Cotton; from U. S. Fish 

 Commission, Bulletin, Vol. IV., Nos. 23 to 29 ; from Nelson Perry, Speci- 

 mens Native Silver and Gold from Mexico; from J. B. Peppers, specimen 

 of Spider; from Cincinnati Exposition Commissioners, Specimens of Gold, 

 Silver and Copper Ores, etc., from Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico. 



