No. 3.] NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 341 



Ottawa, Nov. 25, 1871. 



Sir, — I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 3rd 

 instant, informing me that at a meeting of the Natural History 

 Society of Montreal, held on the 30th September last, a resolution of 

 thanks was unanimously carried to myself, for the aid which I had 

 afforded the Scientific Curator of the Society in the prosecution of his 

 researches into the fauna of the deeper parts of the St. Lawrence Gulf 

 during the past summer, and I am gratified to find in the second reso- 

 lution that the Society have confidence '< that the results will be found 

 to be useful and creditable to Canada, both in a practical and scienti- 

 fic point of view, and such as to encourage a continuation and exten- 

 sion of similar inA'cstigations." I am gratified also to learn that it is 

 the intention of tho Society to '< do all in its power to enable the im- 

 portant scientific results of the expedition to be worked out and pub- 

 lished as extensively as possible." 



While this action of the Natural History Society is personally very 

 gratifying to me, it is also satisfactory to me to be able to state that 

 the Government, in granting the facilities which your Society asked 

 for during the past season, performed an act which, I believe, com- 

 mended itself to the intelligence of the country, and I have no doubt 

 that the action of the researches of the Society in the future, directed 

 as they are by intelligence and scientific skill, will always command 

 the use of similar facilities such as those referred to at the command 

 of the Government. It will afford me much pleasure to notice the 

 result of your labours, if furnished therewith, in the annual report of 

 my Department. 



I have the honor to be, 



Yours, &c,, 



P. Mitchell. 

 J. F. Whiteaves, Esq , F.G.S., 

 Montreal. 



2nd Montlily Meeting, Nov. 29th, 1871. 



The Most R,ev. the Bishop of Montreal and Metropolitan, 

 Rev. Charles Chapman, M.A., Drs. Eneas, Leprohon, Wilkins 

 and McEachran, and Messrs. T. Wright, W. S. Walker, Alex- 

 ander Robertson, Thomas Curry, S. B. Scott, H. Mott, N. Mer. 

 cer, F. W. Hicks, M.A., and J. Dey, B.A., were elected Members 

 of the Society. 



Prof. Nicholson's paper *' On the Colonies of M. Barrandc," 

 was presented ; and Mr. Billings gave a popular exposition of 

 Prof. Barrande's views. The article referred to will be found 

 on page 188. Dr. T. Sterry Hunt then made a communication 

 " On the Geological Structure of Mont Blanc," An article on 

 this subject, by Dr. Hunt, entitled " On Arctic Geology," will 

 be found in the American Journal of Science and Arts, for 

 January, 1872. 



