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ANNUAL ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE 

 NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF MONTREAL, 

 PRINCIPAL DAWSON, LL.D., F.R.S. 



Delivered May l^th, 1871. 



The first duty which devolves upon me in this address is a 

 mournful one — that of referring to the departure from among us 

 of two of our youngest and yet most useful and promising mem- 

 bers, Mr. Alexander S. Ritchie, and Mr. Edward Hartley. 



Mr. Ritchie died in December list, at the age of 34. He had 

 been connected with the Society for six years, and had contribu- 

 ted to our proceedings seven origin-d papers on Entomology and 

 Microscopy. His papers were characterized by minute and pains- 

 taking research, and the facts which he studied were presented 

 in a distinct and lucid manner and often very effectively. He was 

 for some time a member of the Council and of the Editing Com- 

 mittee, and at the time of his death occupied the honourable and 

 useful position of Chairman of the Council. In Mr. Ritchie we 

 have lost a man always ready for any useful work, and whilo 

 active and enthusiastic, most gentle and unobtrusive in his man- 

 ner, and thoroughly to be relied on for the performance of all 

 that he undertook to do. 



Mr. Edward Hartley was a still younger man, and for a shor- 

 ter time a member of this Society. He was born in Montreal, but 

 received his scientific education at the Sheffield School of Yalo 

 College, and was for some time engaged in mineral surveys in the 

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