THE JOURNAL 



OF THE 



CINCINNATI llffl §F NATURAL HIT. 



VOL. V. CINCINNATI, 1 JULY, 1832. No. 2. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 



Tuesday Evening, April 4, 1882. 



Dr. R. M. Byrnes, President, in the chair. Present, 40 members. 



Dr. A. E. Jones, Charles Rule, Thos. H. Orr, and Miss Sarah C. 

 Stubbs were elected members. 



The following officers of the Society were elected for the ensuing- 

 year: President, Dr. R. M. Byrnes; First Vice-President, Dr. J. H. 

 Hunt; Second Vice-President, Dr. F. W. Langdon; Secretary, D. L. 

 James; Treasurer, S. E. Wright; Librarian, S. A. Miller. Members at 

 large to the Executive Board : G. W. Harper, C. F. Low, L. S. Cotton, 

 J. Mickleborough; Trustee for two years, Julius Dexter; Curators — 

 Mineralogy, J. W. Hall, Jr.; Palaeontology, J. Mickleborough; Con- 

 chology, E. M. Cooper; Entomology, J. H. Hunt; Botany, Dr. O. D. 

 Norton; Ornithology, J. W. Shorten; Ichthyology, Dr. D. S.Young; 

 Archaeology, Dr. H. H. Hill; Comparative Anatomy, Dr. A. J. Howe; 

 Herpetology, A. E. Heighway, Jr. 



Donations were announced as follows: Colonel J. W. Abert, mineral 

 specimens; Chas. F. Low, 700 specimens of insects, in twenty boxes; 

 John Schimmel, five minerals; P. T. Abert, Washington, D. C, lot of 

 Indian antiquities from Virginia; Dr. Walter A. Dun, bones from 

 Madisonville cemetery; E. M. Cooper, one volume; A. H. Bugher, 

 specimen of snake in alcohol: W. J. Patterson, two fossils; C. D. Wal- 

 cott, New York, two pamphlets; Department oflnterior, three volumes; 

 Smithsonian Institution, four pamphlets; Department of Agriculture, 



