No. 5.] NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 293 



SOMMERVILLE LECTURES. 



The free public lectures of the Sommerville course were duly 

 delivered during the mouths of January and February, 1877, to 

 good audieuces. The following is a list of the titles of the lec- 

 tures, with the dates at which they were delivered, and the 

 names of the authors. 



1. Jan. 11th, 1877. The Andes of Ecuador. 



By Thomas Macfarlane, Esq. 



2. Jan. 25th, 1877. Cuvier and his Contemporary Naturalists. 



By Prof. P. J. Darey, M.A., B.C.L. 



3. Feb. 1st, 1877. Two years on the Amazon and Madeira 



rivers, Brazil. 



By Donald Baynes, A.M., M.D. 



4. Feb. 8th, 1877. A visit to Sarawak, Borneo. 



By J. Fraser Torrance, A.B., B.A.Sc. 



5. Feb. 15th, 1877. A visit to British Columbia. 



By G. M. Dawson, M.E., F.G.S. 



6. Feb. 22nd, T877. The Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia. 



By S. C. Stepheuson, M.A., Secretary 

 to the Centennial Commission. 



ANNUAL MEETING. 



The annual meeting was held on the 18th of May, 1877. 



The minutes of the last annual meeting having been read, the 

 annual address was delivered by the President, Principal Dawson, 

 as follows : 



ANNUAL ADDRESS. 



In closing another Session of this Society, we naturally turn 

 to the work of the past year, and in this address it is more espe- 

 cially our scientific labours that claim attention. What have 

 we done in the past year for the advancement of science, and for 

 the credit of our country as one of the civilized nations of the 

 world ? I would not underrate what we have accomplished for 

 the popular diffusion of knowledge, by means of our museum, 

 our excursions and our popular lectures, but the original investi- 

 gations which we have given to the world constitute our best 

 title to regard as a scientific association. 



In the course of the winter nine original communications have 

 been laid before thie Society ; and of these the greater number 

 have appeared or will appear in our Journal. OF these commu- 



