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results as might be obtained; that Drs. Smallwood and P. P. 

 Carpenter, also Messrs. E. Hartley and J. F. Whiteaves be a 

 committee to correspond with the Dominion government, through 

 the Hon. the Minister of Marine, with the view of effecting the 

 desired results ; that Principal Dawson be requested, when in 

 London, to obtain information as to the best methods of making 

 such subsidiary observations on the temperature, chemical consti- 

 tution, etc., of the waters at great depths, as have been made in 

 the recent dredging operations under the auspices of the British 

 government, and, if possible, to procure specimens of the necessary 

 apparatus." 



The two following papers were read by Dr. P. P. Carpenter : 



1. On some Peculiarities in Local Faunas, exhibited in the 

 Dredgings, by Mr. McAndrew, in the Red Sea ; by Captain 

 Pedersen, in the Gulf of California, and by Mr. Dall, in Alaska. 



2. On the Vital Statistics of Montreal for 1869, with special 

 reference to the great disproportion in death-rate between the 

 French, the Irish, and the English portions of the population. 



Sixth monthly meeting, April 25th, 1870 ; Rev. Dr. De Sola 

 presiding. 



DONATIONS TO THE LIBRARY. 



Hooker's Icones Plantarum. Octavo. London. Half Morocco. 

 Presented by E. Hartley, Esq. 



Reliquiae Aquitanicae. Part 10. From the executors of the 

 late Henry Christy, Esq. 



Temperature de la mer entre I'lrlande, I'Ecosse, et la Norv^ge. 

 Avec cinq cartes, par H. Mohn, Christiania ; from the Royal 

 Society of Christiania. 



A flora and fauna within living animals, by Joseph Leidy, M.D., 

 4to, Washington ; from Gr. Barnston, Esq. 



PROCEEDINGS. 



John Thomas Molson was elected a life member. 



Gordon Broome, F.G.S., and James Dakers were elected ordinary 

 members. 



Alfred Bell (of London, England) was elected a corresponding 

 member. 



The following resolutions having been moved by A. S. Ritchie, 

 and seconded by G. Barnston, were unanimously adopted : — 



" That the members of this society regret deeply the resignation 



