No. 1.] NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 21 



The number of new specimens of birds or mammals obtained 

 or presented during the past year has been unusually small. 



The collection of North American birds' eggs has, however, 

 been largely increased by a donation from J. J. Frothingham, Esq., 

 and by exchanges with Mr. Lechevalier. 



Marine invertebrates from the coast of Northern New England 

 have been received, in exchange from Prof. Verrill ; and nego- 

 ciations are pending with Mr. Dall, from whom we may expect 

 ultimately to receive some of the products of the seas off Alaska. 



In accordance with a vote of the Society to that effect, a 

 report has been published on the Cretaceous Fossils collected by 

 Mr. Richardson in British Columbia, during the season of 1873, 

 and progress has been made with a monograph on some of the 

 Fossils of the Coal-bearing Rocks of the Queen Charlotte 

 Islands. 



Two original articles have been contributed to the Canadian 

 Naturalist, and two have been read at monthly meetings of'the 

 Society, as already stated by the President. 



The following financial statement was submitted by the 

 Treasurer, E. E. Shelton : 



