340 THE CANADIAN NATURALIST. [Vol. vi. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 



Session 1871-72. 



MONTHLY MEETINGS. 



1st Monthly Meeting, October 30th, 1871, — Principal Dawson 

 presiding. 



A donation of a large collection of fossils from Sir G. Duncan 

 Gibb, Bart., M.A., M.D., F.G.S., &c., &c., having been announced 

 by the Kecording Secretary, a special vote of thanke to the donor 

 was passed. 



Prof. J. B. Edwards made a communication on an insect 

 larva (?) which he stated perforated filters made of silicated 

 carbon. 



Mr. J. F. "Whiteaves read a paper entitled " Log of a Deep- 

 Sea Dredo-inoj Cruise round the Island of Anticosti." This 

 forms the first part of a report submitted by the author to the 

 Hon. the Minister of Marine and Fisheries for publication, the 

 whole of which it is hoped will appear, with the writer's latest 

 corrections, in an early number of this journal. 



A paper by Dr. Anderson, entitled " The Whale of the St. 

 Lawrence," was read by the Rec. Secretary. This will be found 

 at pages 203-208 of the present volume. 



The following resolutions having been moved by Dr. Smallwood 

 and seconded by G. L. Marler, were unanimously adopted : 



" That this Society desires to convey to the Hon. the Minister of 

 Marine its grateful acknowledgments for the aid afforded to its Scien- 

 tific Curator in the prosecution of his researches into the fauna of the 

 deeper parts of the Gulf of St. Lawrence during the past summer, and 

 to express i^s confidence that the results will be found to be useful 

 and creditable to Canada, both in a practical and scientific point of 

 view, and such as to encouraare a continuation and extension of simi- 

 lar investigations." 



" That this resolution be communicated to the Hon. the Minister of 

 Marine, with the assurance that the Society will do all in its power 

 to enable the important scientific results of the expedition to be work- 

 ed out, and published as extensively as possible." 



A copy of the above resolutions was duly forwarded to the Hon. 

 Mr. Mitchell, to which the following reply was returned : 



