292 THE CANADIAN NATURALIST. [Vol. 



Vll, 



During the past year eighteen new ordinary members have 

 been elected, a number though small, slightly in advance of last 

 year's accessions. The new collector not having furnished the 

 necessary data, it is impossible to state with accuracy what 

 losses have been sustained by death, removal, or other causes. 

 A circular, inviting the co-operalion of ladies in the work of the 

 Society, has been issued and distributed at meetiugs of the 

 Ladies' Educational Association, and on other suitable occasions. 

 Seven ladies have become associate members, and the Council 

 sugcrst to their successors to try and interest more ladies in the 

 objects which the Society was formed to promote. 



The number of visitors to the museum, during the past Ses- 

 sion, is about one thousand. 



After continual remonstrances with the corporation oflMont- 

 real, and petitions to that body, the cab-stand in front of the 

 premises, which was so great a nuisance to the Society and so 

 detrimental to its interests, has been in part removed. 



Through the kindness and liberality of Irieuds, and especially 

 in consee^ucnce of the active exeriic ns of Mr. Selwyn (to whom 

 the Society's thanks are specially due in this matter), your 

 Council are liappy to be enabled to report that Messrs. Dawson 

 Bros.' account, amounting at the last annual meeting to $653.92, 

 lias been entirely li(|uidaied. Tne follo\\ing is a list of the 

 donors, to whom the cordial thanks of the Council are hereby 



tendered : 



Sir W.E. Logan, LL.D.,F.R.S. $50 John H. Molson 10 



James Ferrier, Jun 50 John Molson 10 



J. H. Joseph 50 D.J. Greenshields 10 



W. F. Kay 50 John Kerry 10 



Peter Redpath 50 Messrs. Borland, Watson & Co. 10 



C J. Brydges 50 G. L. Mai ler 10 



His Excellency the Governor- N. Mercer 10 



General 20 John Lovell 10 



Principal Dawson 20 Kenneth Camiibell 10 



Sir Hugh Allan 20 Messrs. Savnge, Lyman & Co. . 10 



Donald A. Smith 25 Joseph B. Moore 10' 



H. Archibald 20 R. B. Angus 10 



E. Murphy 20 D. Lorn MacDougall 10 



H. J. Reekie 20 H. Benjamin 10 



G. B. Burland 20 Rev. Dr. De Sola 10 



Messrs. Walker and Miles 20 B. Gibb 10 



Sir Francis Hincks 10 W. Notman 10 



Hon. Judge Torrance 10 D. R. McCord 10 



