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REPORT ON THE PETER REDPATH MUSEUM 

 OF McGILL UNIVERSITY. 



Prepared hy Principal Dawson for the first meeting of the 

 Museum Committee, March Wth, 1882. 



[In the terms of the gift of the Peter Redpath Museum to the 

 University, it is provided that the immediate management of the 

 Museum shall be entrusted to a " Standing Committee of the 

 Corporation, to be called the Museum Committee, to consist of the 

 Principal as Chairman, and three other members of the ^rpor- 

 ation, with whom shall be associated the Logan Profifessor of 

 Geology and the Professors of Mineralogy, Zoology and Botany, 

 and of other departments of Natural History in the Faculties of 

 Arts or Applied Science of McGill College, should there be such 

 Professors. The Committee shall have power to appoint any of 

 its members Honorary Curator or Curators of the Collections or 

 of any part thereof, and to arrange the times at which different 

 Professors and their classes may teach or study in the Museum." 

 A Museum Committee was accordingly appointed by the 

 Corporation of the University, at its meeting in January, 1882, 

 and consists of the following members : The Principal (^ex officio') , 

 Peter Redpath, Esq., Hon. Mr. Justice McKay, Dr. G. W. 

 Campbell, Dr. B, J. Harrington (ex officio). The following 

 report was presented by the Principal to the first meeting, 

 with the object of placing on record the steps taken by him up 

 to that time in his capacity of Curator of the Museum, under 

 the regulations of the University.] 



The noble Museum, erected for the University by the muni- 

 ficence of Mr. Redpath, has now so far advanced toward comple- 

 tion, that it will probably be ready for the reception of specimens 

 in May next, and it is extremely desirable that the collections 

 to be contained in it shall be in as perfect a condition as possible 

 at the time of the formal opening, which is intended to take 

 place on the 24th of August, on occasion of the meeting of the 

 American Association in Montreal. In view of these dates, it 



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