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THE CANADIAN NATURALIST. 



[June 



After considerable discussion on the liabilities of the Society, 

 it was determined, by an appeal to the public, to raise a special 

 fund to defray the debt incurred by the Building Committee, 

 now amounting to $2,400 ; and, if possible, to increase the 

 Library and Museum. The object was announced by the Pre- 

 sident at the Conversazione; the appeal has been printed and 

 circulated, and a special Collecting Committee appointed. It 

 was decided that all subscribers of $50 or upwards to this fund 

 should be recommended as life members, or be able to nominate 

 a friend if they were themselves qualified. The Council earnest- 

 ly recommend that this most important committee be re-appoint- 

 ed. The subscriptions already promised amount to $1,430, of 

 which the following is a list : — 



Subscriptions for the Liquidation of debt owed by the Natural 

 History Society of Montreal, and thereafter for the improve- 

 ment of its Museum and Library. 



Mr. John Frothingam 



— William Molson 



— Thomas Workman, M.P. 



— William Workman 



— Thomas Morland 



$ioo 

 ioo 

 5o 

 50 

 50 



Peter Redpath 50 



John W. Molson 50 



George Barnston ... 50 



J. Henry Joseph 50 



Thomas Rimmer 50 



G. A. Drummond 50 



William Muir 50 



William Ewan 50 



John Leeming 50 



W. Fred. Kay 50 



Mr. T. Macfarlane $50 



— Champion Brown 50 



— John Swanston 50 



— Alexander McGibbon 50 



— J as. Ferrier, Jr 50 



— T.J. Claxton 50 



— F. J. Claxton 50 



Rev. A. DeSola, LL.D 50 



Rev. Canon Balch, D.D 20 



Sir W. E. Logan, LL.D., F.R.S.... 50 



Mr. E. Billings, F.G.S 25 



— J. F. Whiteaves 25 



— A. S. Ritchie 20 



— Jas. Ewan 20 



— Jno. Lovell 20 



PUBLIC LECTURES. 



The yearly course of the Somerville Free Lectures was de- 

 livered last winter as follows : 



1. — General Sketch of the Gasteropodous Mollusks. By P. P. 

 Carpenter, B.A., Ph. D. 



2. — On the Chemistry of the Stars. By J. B. Edwards, Ph. 

 P., F.C.S. 



3. — On the Origin of Continents. By the President. 



4. — On the Anatomy of the Common Sea-Urchin. By Prin- 

 cipal Dawson, LL.D., F.B.S. 



5.— From Granite to Basalt. By Mr. T. Macfarlane. 



6. —On Coleoptera. By G. P. Girdwood, M.D. 



In consequence of the interest excited by the very beautiful 

 experiments made by Dr. Edwards in illustration of the second 

 lecture, he kindly consented to deliver a supplementary lecture 



