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3. Communications. 



4. New Members. 



5. Reports of Committee. 



6. New Business. 



No. 12. Amendments. 

 An amendment or an addition to these By-laws may be 

 passed at any meeting of the Council, by a two-thirds vote of 

 the whole Council, due notice embodying a copy of the proposed 

 motion having been given at a previous meeting of the Council. 

 Any such amendment or addition shall be published in the next 

 issue of The Ottawa Naturalist. 



DONATIONS TO THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



The Victoria Memorial Museum has received a gift from the 

 Canadian Northern Pacific Railway of the skeleton of a youth 

 found in September, 191 1 , tightly wedged in a crevice about SO feet 

 from the centre line of the Canadian Northern Pacific Railway's 

 construction at Kamloops Lake. This skeleton was secured by 

 Mr. W. H. Melanson, the Resident Engineer of the Railway at 

 Savona, and in compliance with orders issued by Mr. T. G. 

 Holt, Attorney for the road at Vancouver, at the instance of 

 Hon. William MacKenzie, was forwarded to Vancouver, from 

 where it was sent as a gift of the Canadian Northern to the people 

 of Canada. This single shipment, of course, is of minor import- 

 ance compared with the precedent which it established for the 

 deposition in the national museum of all information and specimens 

 obtained in railroad construction throughout Canada. The Domin- 

 ion Archaeologist made request to several of the leading railroads 

 of the country to instruct their engineers to carefully preserve 

 all specimens found, and of still more importance to send in inform- 

 ation regarding all antiquities and objects of handiwork as well 

 as human remains as a gift to the nation. It seems only right 

 that these objects of scientific value should be preserved for the 

 benefit of all the people rather than allowed to become scattered 

 and destroyed as is so often the case when they are uncovered 

 by the activities connected with development and industries 

 throughout the country. Accession 12. 



An ancient human skull has also recently been received at 

 the Victoria Memorial Museum as a gift from MacKenzie, Mann 

 & Co., Limited. This was sent in by Mr. G. T. Holt, the Attorney 

 for the road at Vancouver in compliance with orders issued by 

 Hon. William MacKenzie to the authorities of the road to present 



