Noticing the refusal of an eminent scientific body to receive a lady to membership, and the action of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences in receiving them to full membership, a Cincinnati correspondent says that the Society of Natural History of that city, founded on the plan of the Philadelphia academy, not only has a very large list of lady members, but some of them have reached such scientific eminence as to become officers in the body. The head of the department of Botany is Miss Nettie Fillmore, and Mrs. M. C. Morehead, of Conchology, and Mrs. Jos. L. James is the Secretary of the Botanical Section. At least ten ladies, known to our correspondent, were elected members last year. It seems strange that the oldest scientific body on this continent should be left to learn from younger ones in a matter of this kind.