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NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 



PROCEEDINGS FOR THE SESSION 1875-76. 



MONTHLY MEETINGS. 



1st Monthly Meeting, held October 25th, 1875. 



The Rec. -Secretary having read a letter in which the Messrs. 

 Allan Bros, of Liverpool, undertook to convey to the Society a 

 box of specimens presented by Lieut.-Col. Bulger, free of charge : 

 It was moved by Prof. Darey, seconded by E. E. Shelton, and 

 resolved : — " That the thanks of the Society be voted to the 

 Messrs. Allan Bros, for their liberality in this matter." 



A number of donations to the Library and Museum were an- 

 nounced and exhibited, and the thanks of the meeting were 

 voted to each of the donors. 



Dr. B. J. Harrington then read an obituary notice of the late 

 Sir W. E. Logan. This will be found on pages 31-46 of the 

 present volume. 



Rev. Dr. De Sola, who occupied the chair in the absence of 

 the President, having made some remarks on the great loss 

 which the Society had sustained by the decease of one of its 

 most eminent and oldest members : it was moved by Principal 

 Dawson, seconded by G. L. Marler, and resolved unanimously: 

 " That Dr. Harrington be requested to publish the obituary 

 notice just read in the Proceedings of this Society in the Cana- 

 dian Naturalist, as a testimony to the honour in which the 

 Society, in common with all other ..friends of science in this 

 country, holds the memory of Sir W. E. Logan, and that copies 

 be sent in the name of the Society to his surviving relatives." 



Dr. P. P. Carpenter made a communication u On the life and 

 labours of the late Dr. John Edward Gray, of the British Mu- 

 seum, and of Prof. G. P. Deshayes, formerly of the Jardin des 

 Plantes, Paris," after which the meeting closed. 



2nd Monthly Meeting, held November 29th, 1875. 



After the transaction of the usual routine business, a discus- 

 sion ensued on the question of the proposed union with the 

 Fraser Institute ; and the previous correspondence on the sub- 



