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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATURAL HISTORY 

 SOCIETY OF MONTREAL. 



The first regular meetinp; for the Session 1879-80, was held in 

 the Society's Rooms on Monday evening, Oct. 27th. The minutes 

 of the hist meeting were read and confirmed. An eagle presented 

 to the Society by J. J. Gibb, Esq. of Como, and mounted by 

 Mr. Passmore, was exhibited and carefully examined. 



There being a very small attendance, owing to some misunder- 

 standinii' as to ni^ht of meetinir, a general discussion of the affairs 

 of the Society was held, after which the meeting adjourned. 



The second meetinsr was held on the eveninir of December 1st, 

 the President, A. R. C. Selwyn, Esq., F.R.S., in the chair. The 

 minutes of last meeting being read and approved, the following 

 gentlemen were elected members of the Society : — Dr. Angus 

 MacDonnell and Messrs. Wni, Crowther, L. Bamburgher, and 

 W. J. Morris. 



Priiicipal Dawson then read a paper entitled " Recent Contro- 

 versies respecting Eozoony In this paper the Principal discussed 

 the memoir of Prof. Karl Moebius, of Kiel, published in the 

 " Palasontographica," and a reply by Moebius to a previous criti- 

 cism ; also an abstract of a memoir presented to the Royal So- 

 ciety of London by Professor^; King and Rowney, of the Queen's 

 University of Ireland, and a memoir lately published by Dr. Otto 

 Hahn in Germany. He referred to the points in which the 

 several writers in question had misapprehended the structures 

 and relations of Eozoon, and illustrated these by specimens and 

 drawings. 



At the close of the paper, Dr. T. Sterry Hunt stated that in- 

 asmuch as Principal Dawson had mentioned his name in connec- 

 tion with the subject of Eozoon, he might be permitted to say 

 that he thought quite too much notice had been taken in the 

 paper of the views of Hahn and others, whose statements with 

 regard to Eozoon were really too absurd to be worthy of con- 

 sideration. On the occasion of his recent visit to Europe (in 

 1878) he had carried with him a collection of specimens of 

 Eozoon, placed in his hands by Principal Dawson. The collec- 

 tion had been studied by Zirkel and Renard, and both these 



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