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Delegates accompanied the President to the office of the Governor 
General, and presented to His Excellency a Farewell Address, to which 
he made a very able and sympathetic reply. The several sections met, 
but as it was the Queen's Birthday it was largely observed as a holiday. 
A sub-excursion of the O.F.N.C- was organized in the afternoon, for the 
benefit of Section IV, and a very pleasant visit was made to the woods 
near Hemlock Lake The excursion was brief, to enable the partici- 
pants to attend the delightful " At Home " given by Sir James and Lady 
Grant. On Thursday morning the sections completed the reading of 
papers and election of their officers, and in the afternoon the officers of 
the Society were elected as follows : Pres., Dr. Geo. Dawson, C.M.G.; 
Vioe-Pres., Mr. Lemoine (Quebec); Sec, Dr. Bourinot, C.M G.; Treas., 
Dr. Selwyn, C.M.G. In Section IV, Geological and Biological Sciences, 
with which our interests are most closely allied, the officers are as 
follows: Pres., Prof. Macoun ; Vice-Pres., Mr. Fletcher; Sec, Prof. 
Penhallow (Montreal). Fourteen papers were presented in this section. 
The Presidential Address, by Mr. Whiteaves, dealt with the Cretaceous 
rocks, which are largely developed in the North-West Territories and 
British Columbia, and which have yielded many interesting fossils, and 
minerals (such as coal) of much value. Mr. Whkeaves also read a paper 
on some new fossils from the Trenton limestone of Manitoba. Three 
other papers were presented by members of our Club, viz.: " The Geo- 
logy of the Proposed Tunnel under the Northumberland Strait between 
New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island," Dr. Ells ; " Sponges from 
the Pacific Coast of Canada," Mr. Lambe, and " Canadian Uroceridae," 
Mr. Harrington, (present as Delegate from the Entomological Society of 
Ontario.) Ed. 
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EXCURSION No. II, TO ROCKLAND. 
It is proposed to hold the Second Excursion on June 17th, down 
the Ottawa to Rockland, Ont., a locality not yet visited by the Club, 
and which is highly recommended by the Excursion Committee. The 
Steamer Empress leaves the Queen's Wharf at 7.20 a.m. The price of 
tickets will be twenty-five cents. 
