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Sketches of the Libraries of Clncinnatt.Nl'KBER T.Library of the Western Academy ofNatural Sciences.BY W. H. VENABLE.On the 25th of April, 1835, nineteen gentlemen met at the liail of the Cincinnati MedicalSociety, and organized the Western Academy of Natural Science. Prominent among these founders were Robert Buchanan, Daniel Drake,James Hall, J. S. Riddell, Joseph Clark, Peyton Symmes, W. D. Gallagher, George Graham and Jas. H. Perkins. Robert Buchanan was the first President of the Academy, Jas. H. Perkins the first Secretary, and Dr. Gross the first Librarian. John P. Foote, Dr. Colby, J. S. Armstrong, Mr. Dorfeuille, Dr. Locke, Calvin Stowe and others, soon became active members of thenew organization. An act of incorporation was obtained Flbruary 22, 1836. The meetings of the Academy were first held in the southwestroom, second story, of the Cincinnati College.AAfterward they were held in a room in the Bazaar, furnished, free of expense, by the Mechanics’ Institute. From the Bazaar, the Academy with its cabinet and library, removedto a room in a building located on the cprner oftilFilth and Vine streets. Then, for a time, its meetings were held at different private houses of members. About 1844, John L. Talbott’s school room on College street, between Sixth jand Seventh ^now part of the Dental College),was secured as a place of meeting, and a depository for the property of the academy. In 1850 the luckless institution again migrated, this time taking up temporary quarters in the “Apollo Building/’ corner of Fifth and Walnut. Still again, in 1853, another removal occurred. This nomadic academy took up its abode somewhere in a building located on the corner of Fourth and Vine streets, wnere Suire’s drug store now stands. Soon after this it once more found its way into the Cincinnati College, and there occupied, according to John P. Foote, an inconvenient situation’’ in a third story room. A better room was subsequently secured in the college. After the lapse of a few vears the cabinet was packed up and stored under Beggs Smith’s jewelry store. There it was resurrected and taken to Mr. Talbott’s school house on Fifth street, between Central avenue and John, where it may yet be seen. The library wasf given in charge of Mr. H. C. Grosvenor, whf kept it in his engraving establishment, until the year 1858, when he went to Arizona.Th honks were then intrusted to the keenim?
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Cincinnati Daily Gazette
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Fri, Mar 26, 1869
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