92 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. 
Members at large for the Executive Board, Prof. G. W. Harper, C. 
F. Low, H. H. Hill and J. Mickleborough. 
Trustee—R. B. Moore. 
A committee consisting of R. B. Moore, U. P. James and Dr. O. D. 
Norton, was appointed to report suitable expressions of the Society on 
the death of Mr. David Bowles, a life member. 
Turspay Evenine, May 3, 1881. 
Prof. Ormond Stone, Vice-President in the chair; F. W. Langdon. 
Secretary. Present, 12 members. | 
H. M. Schultz was elected a member of the Society. 
The committee on the Death of Mr. David Bowles was reauested to 
prepare its report in time for publication in the July No. of the 
JOURNAL. 
The Smithsonian Institution presented six volumes of Contributions 
to Knowledge—vols. 16 to 21 inclusive. Captain L. Barney, vol. 1 of 
the Proceedings of the Natural History Society of Paris, 1792. E. A. 
Pohlmeyer an Anaconda, in alcohol. And Joseph F. James some 
Lepidopterous insects. 
Turspay Evenine, June 7, 1881. 
Dr. R. M. Byrnes, President, in the chair; F. W. Langdon, Secretary. 
Present, 20 members. 
Remarks were made by Dr. D. 8. Young upon the fossil fish pre- 
sented by Mr. Charles DeYoung, of California, through the kindness 
of Mr. Murat Halstead, of the Cincinnati Commercial, 
Col. P. P. Lane, of Norwood, in Hamilton county, presented to the So- 
ciety his collection ofrelics from the ancient cemetery at Madisonville, 
which embraces several hundred specimens; Dr. C. L. Metz also pre- 
sented a collection from the same locality; Davis L. James, 33 species 
of seeds of Cincinnati plants; Dr. A. J. Howe, a Septaria and a Medi- 
cal Journal; Jos. F. James, 1 box of insects, catalogue of fossils in 
Heidelberg Mineralogical Institute, and 4 magazines; Mr. E. P. Cranch, 
an old Cincinnati collector of specimens of Natural History, 22 boxes of 
fossils, largely from the hills at Cincinnati, 9 boxes of minerals, 6 boxes 
of shells, some of them quite rare, and 2 boxes of mosses and lichens, 
and a lot of Pine cones, etc., etc.; Mr. Geo. Skinner, of Kalida, Ohio, 
a photograph of Indian relics; U. P. James, Paleontologist No. 5; E. 
H. Vaupel, 42 species of Cincinnati fossils; S$. T. Carley, of Bantam, 
Clermont Co., O., a slab of Glyptocrinus decadactylus, and labrum of 
an Asaphus; Charles DeYoung, of San Francisco, California, through 
Murat Halstead, Esq., a beautiful fossil fish; from Wm. Hubbel Fisher, 
2 skins of Hylotomus pileatus; and from Dr. O. D. Norton, Michaux’s 
N. Am. Sylva, 3 vols., Browne’s Sylva Americana, and Barton’s Ele- 
ments of Botany, 3 vols. 
