344 THE CANADIAN NATURALIST. [Vol. vi. 



4th Monthly Meeting, Feb. 26th, 1872. 



Prof. H. A. Nicholson, of Toronto, was elected a corresponding 

 member of the Society. 



A paper by Prof. H. A. Nicholson, entitled Sexual Selection 

 in Man, was presented, and Mr. Darwin's yiews on that subject, 

 with Prof. Nicholson's comments thereon, were explained and 

 illustrated by Principal Dawson. Prof. Nicholson's paper will 

 appear in the next No. of this journal. 



A paper entitled " On the Cultivation of Chenopodium Quinoa," 

 was read by Principal Dawson. This we hope to print also in 

 our next number. 



Dr. P. P. Carpenter made a communication " On the present 

 condition and causes of the Montreal Death Rate." 



SOMERVILLE LECTURES. 



The six Annual Lectures of the Somerville Course were duly 

 delivered as follows : 



1. Feb. 8th, 1872.— On Mont Blanc, by Dr. T. Sterry Hunt, 

 F.R.S. 



2. Feb. 15th, 1872.— A New England Clam-Bake, by Dr. P. 

 P. Carpenter. 



3. Feb. 22nd, 1872. — Applied science as illustrated in the 

 processes of Chromo and Photo-Lithography, by Prof. J. B. Ed- 

 wards, Ph. D., D.C.L., &c. 



4. March 7th, 1872. — The elementary principles of Spectrum 

 Analysis, by Prof. G. F. Armstrong, M.A., F.G-.S. 



5. March 14th, 1872. — On Thermometers and other measures 

 of Heat, by Dr. G. P. Girdwood. 



6. March 21st, 1872. — On Fossil Foot-prints, by Principal 

 Dawson, LL.D., F.R.S. , &c. 



