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Legislature in discontinuing the small grant to the Society. He 

 claimed also for the Natural History Society that it had procured 

 the Geological Survey, the benefits of which had been so strikingly 

 set forth by Prof. Hall. He alluded to his long intercourse with 

 Sir William Logan, as school-mates, as college-companions, and 

 in after life, and passed a eulogy on the services rendered to science 

 by that distinguished geologist, and then, after some further 

 remarks, resumed his seat amidst warm applause. 



The President said that, before the proceedings closed, he had 

 one or two other remarks to offer. In reference to the Legislative 

 grant, he had just receive'! a note from the Corresponding Secre- 

 tary, who said : — "The Legislature has not withdrawn its grant, 

 but has neglected to send it." Perhaps there was a difference 

 there by which the Society might hereafter profit. II? had fur- 

 ther to state that on Tuesday, the 1st of March, they would com- 

 mence a course of lectures, to be continued weekly from that day, 

 free to the public. The regular meetings of the Society for busi- 

 ness purposes and scientific discussions were held monthly on the 

 last Monday of every month. He hoped the number of members 

 would now be increased, that the efficiency of the Society might 

 be augmented. Already, however, they had in it no small amount 

 of working scientific power. lie need only mention such 

 names as Logan and Billings in Geology; Smallwood and Hall in 

 Meteorology ; Holmes, Barnston and Kemp in Canadian Botany ; 

 D'Urban and Hingston in Zoology ; Murphy and King in 

 Microscopy ; who were prepared to bring to their meetings every 

 month something they had been doing, great or small, in the vari- 

 ous departments of Natural History. 



The proceedings then terminated shortly after eleven o'clock. 



The Toronto Microscopical Society. 



On the 1st of February, 1S59, the lovers of Micros, 

 science in Toronto held a meeting for the purpose of forming a 

 society. At a subsequent meeting the constitution was adopted, 

 and office-bearers elected for the current year. 



The following resolution was carried : — 



Moved by Win. Couper, seconded by John M< Roberts, — "That 

 a copy of the constitution now adopted, together with a list ofthe 

 office-bearers of the Societv, bo forwarded to the Canadian Xa- 

 turalist for publication." 



