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Society would derive aid from every graduate of any Scientific 

 school established here; and on the other hand, it can never attain 

 for its collections their full utility, until there should be such 

 schools. Another is, that while as President of this Society I have 

 its immediate interests in view, I have also at heart the advan- 

 tage of the young men growing up among us, and whom I should 

 wish to see rising to something higher than the position of subor- 

 dinates to men trained in other countries ; and with this feeling, 

 I propose, on every fitting occasion, and I regard this as one, to 

 insist as strongly as I can on the necessity of schools of practical 

 science to the welfare and progress of this country. 



VISIT OF HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR GENERAL. 



At the Court House, on the morning of the second of February, 

 the following address to His Excellency was presented and read 

 by the President, Principal Dawson. The President was accom- 

 panied by Sir W. E. Logan, Dr. T. Sterry Hunt, Dr. Smallwood, 

 Dr. J. Baker Edwards and other ofiicers and members of the 

 Society. 



To His Excellency the Right Honourable Sir John Young, 

 Bart., G.C.B., G.C.M.G., &c., &c.. Governor General of 

 the Dominion of Canada, &c., &c. 



May it please your Excellency : 



We, the President, Vice Presidents, and Members of the 

 Natural History Society of Montreal, beg leave to approach Your 

 Excellency with our most respectful salutations and most cordial 

 welcome qn this your first visit to Montreal, and to tender our 

 hearty congratulations on your assumption of the government of 

 this Dominion. 



The Institution which we have the honour of representing is 

 one of the oldest in Montreal, and has ever had for its chief 

 object the advancement of the study of Natural Science in this 

 city and throughout Canada. To this end it has striven amid 

 much difiiculty, but with some success, to establish a museum of 

 Natural History and Archaeology, and a library of scientific 

 works, to which we respectfully invite the inspection of Your 

 Excellency. It also, by its papers periodically read, its lectures, 

 and its organ the Canadian Naturalist, and such other means 

 as it may command, seeks to promote original investigation and 



