58 THE CANADIAN NATURALIST. [Vol. ix. 



The second meeting was held on the evening of Monday, Nov. 

 25th. 



Dr. T. Sterry Hunt addressed the meeting on ''Geological 

 notes of a summer tour in Europe." Among other things he 

 called attention to the fact that European geologists were coming 

 more and more to regard Canada as the land of the typical 

 Eozoic rocks. He also stated that the animal structure of Eozoon 

 was now pretty generally admitted by European scientists. 



The third meeting was held on the evening of Monday, Jan. 

 27th. A. R. C. Selwyn, Esq., F.R.S., occupied the chair in the 

 absence of Principal Dawson. 



Six new members were elected, after which Dr. Edwards 

 announced the subjects and dates of the Sommerville lectures for 

 the present winter. 



Mr. John B. Goode then read a p?»per on Canadian ferns, 

 to illustrate which he exhibited his fine collection of native 

 ferns. This paper we publish in full elsewhere. Mr. J. W. 

 Tayler presented the Society with an Esquimaux bow and six 

 arrows obtained from a settlement on the west coast of Davis 

 Straits. The donor culled attention to the fact that ancient 

 sculptors represent the classic bow formed in the same manner 

 as this; and that Apollo is represented as bearing an ivory bow 

 constructed on the same principle. The bow is made of three 

 pieces of reindeer horn, bound together with deerskin thongs. 

 It is strung in the reverse way of its curve, an impetus being 

 given the arrow, not from the spring of the horn, but from the 

 elasticity of the thongs which bind the pieces together. The 

 arrows are tipped with iron and winged with feathers of the Ger- 

 F a Icon. 



Mr. Caulfield then exhibited the insects taken at St. Jerome 

 on 1st June last, the Society's field-day. With one or two ex- 

 ceptions all are found in Montreal and vicinity. The following 

 is a list : 



COLEOPTERA. 



Cicimiela sexgutta, Fabr, Aphodcus fimetarins, Linn, 



« purpurea, Oliv. Dichelonycba elongtula, iSchon. 



<' vulgaris, Say. Corymbitcs cylindriformis, Herbst 



Calosoma calidum, Fabr. Fhotinus curruscus, Linn. 



Plutynus cupripennis, Say. Tetropium cinnamopterum, Kirby. 



Agonoderus pailipes, Fabr. Ascmum atrum, Esch. 



