The man elected president was Robert Buchanan > representa- 
tive of the type of man so often found leading community activ- 
ities. He was the businessman who had attained financial 
security so that he could afford an avocation, and he had 
adopted natural history as his hobby. His interest in and 
al 
Sciences, but also of the Horticultur- 
Society, the Astronomical Society and the Angling Club. He 
support of the Academy, and un- 
; organizations as well. His per- 
f inane ial 
soaal knowledge of natural science was sincere and persisten 
In 1834 he had made a collection of the flora of Cincinnati, 
and he gathered shells and fossils, maintainine his own cabl 
and 
Later he 
became interested in horticulture, especially viniculture, pub- 
book 
As 
Sc 
and downs, kect eoinc until the Civil War. and 
organization 
passed 
ar 
transactions 
Louis, but it sponsored occasional publications, among them 
innati area, and 
cals. 
Ac ademy 
art 
xaining the American Association for the Advancement of Science 
At other times, scientists who came to Cincinnati met with the 
members, and were rnnHnr^-i-a/i ^^ ^a^-^^^ ^* ^^a^^4.a^a^ -sri+oT-ofit' 
The Cincinnati Acad 
never very well arranged 
because the Academy coul 
curator, and because nn 
was 
9 
organization 
Sciences 
fits, and 
each received the stimulus of the group association, and felt 
l^^flli^*^^** *° proceed with his own work. At a typical meetin 
iQ 1S41 In rooms over the fire-house, various members read re 
ports on the craniums of turtles, oriental beans, fossils fou 
in coal, and a cast of a hAni70T< Hom *^.,«^ ^^ Ai,,^ir,<T +hp nhio 
Canal 
was 
Instif + I ^"^ ^^^^ "®'^y acquired rooms in the Mechanics 
firl Ii ^ building. The meeting adjourned abruptly when the 
t« tK^"" sounded, and the members left to follow the engine 
10 the firel 
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