No. 3.] NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 175 



" That the report now presented be adopted as amended, and 

 the terms therein stated for union with the Fraser Institute, be, 

 and hereby are, accepted by this Society, and that the Council 

 be, and hereby is. empowered to prepare and execute the neces- 

 sary agreements and deeds so soon as the building of the Fraser 

 Institute shall be erected, and the Trustees thereof be in a posi- 

 tion to carry out the stipulations entered into by them. The 

 Council shall have the drafts of the said agreements and deeds 

 prepared with legal advice, and shall submit them to the Society 

 before signature." 



"Farther, that the said deeds and agreements shall contain 

 provision for the disposal of the collections and library, in event 

 of either the Fraser Institute or Natural History Society ceasing 

 to exist as at present constituted, or failing to fulfil its obliga- 

 tions." 



The " Memoranda" were then discussed, paragraph by para- 

 graph, and upon a motion to that effect being made, it was re- 

 solved unanimously : 



" That the words — for use as a free Museum and Library — 

 be added to the first paragraph of the first Memorandum." 



It was moved by Dr. P. P. Carpenter, seconded by C. Robb : 



" That the words — ' permanently and without reserve ' — be 

 struck out of the same paragraph." 



The motion was put to the meeting, and was declared by the 

 Chairman to be lost. 



Dr. P. P. Carpenter moved, seconded by G. L. Marler : 



" That the following qualification be added to paragraph 3 of 

 the second ' Memorandum,' after the word Iustitute — ' But no 

 appointment of Chief Curator shall be made without ratification 

 by the Society.' " 



This resolution was unanimously adopted. 



The main motion was then submitted to the meeting, and was 

 carried nemine contradiscente. 



4th Monthly Meeting, held February 28th, 1876. 



Messrs. Armand Thielens (Director of Posts, Tirlemont, Bel- 

 gium), Professor Edouard Morren (University of Liege, Belgium), 

 Andre Devos (Conservator of Botany, University of Liege, 

 Belgium), and Robert Middleton. of Victoria, Vancouver Island, 

 were elected corresponding members. 



