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The Lecture-Room was rented, during the winter, to the 

 Montreal Branch of the Entomological Society of Ontario, also 

 to Mr. W. Muir, and the proceeds of such rental — amounting to 

 $202 — will be found credited by the Treasurer in his accounts 

 to be submitted this evening. 



§ |Your Council have also to report an addition of seventeen 

 ordinary members, as having been elected during the past year. 



The number of visitors to the Museum has increased somewhat 

 there having been about 1200 in the session which closes this 

 evening. 



The Sommcrville Course of Free Lectures has been duly deli- 

 vered, a list of which, with the Lecturers' names, will be found 

 in the Society's Proceedings. 



The annual grant of $750 from the Legislature of the Pro- 

 vince of Quebec has also been duly received. 



Your Council recommend that application be again made to 

 the Local Government for an increase of this grant to $1000. 



Finally, your Council would again urge on the incoming Offi- 

 cers the desirability of trying to make the Library, which is now 

 incomplete, more useful to its members, and to the students of 

 Natural History generally. 



The subjoined report of the Scientific Curator and Rec. 

 Secretary was then read by Mr. Whiteaves : 



REPORT OF THE SCIENTIFIC CURATOR. 



Since the last annual meeting, considerable time has been de- 

 voted to the study of some of the most difficult marine animals 

 obtained in four late dredging expeditions to the Gulf of St. Law- 

 rence. So many specimens were collected on these occasions, 

 that it will be probably some years before the whole of them are 

 correctly determined. 



The Foramiuifera have been exhaustively examined, and some 

 of the more critical forms have been sent to Dr. Parker. With 

 the exception of a solitary species, the entire series has been now 

 identified. The microscopic Crustacea, such as the entomostraca 

 and copepods, have been forwarded to Messrs. Robertson and 

 Brady, who have kindly named all but a few still doubtful forms, 

 which are believed to be new to science. 



All the amphipods of the Gulf have been submitted to Prof. 

 S. J. Smith, of Yale College, New Haven, the only authority on 

 this subject in the United States, who has just communicated to 

 me the results of his latest studies on these difficult cruitacea. 



