XII ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
relics, and portraits of the men of substance and energy who made 
possible the material prosperity now almost universal; there are all 
these things, perhaps stored away in dusty attics as unvalued rubbish, 
and we ask that we may be made their custodians. 
We are fortunate in being able to give our collection such fitting 
shelter, and we trust that our hopes of one day seeing a really great 
and comprehensive National Museum, Picture Gallery and Library 
worthily housed in a thoroughly restored building will, with the aid 
of generous sympathizers, yet be realized. 
In taking our mission thus seriously, we may be permitted to 
think that we are helping to sow and cultivate a genuine, united, and 
enduring sentiment of Canadian nationality, worthy of the best effort 
we can make, which, in its full flower, shall be a consummation of the 
aspirations of the statesman who wrote: 
“ L’étranger voit avec un œil d’envie 
Du Saint Laurent, le majestueux cours. 
A son aspect, le Canadien s’écrie 
Oh! Canada, mon pays, mes amours !” 
IV.—From The Natural History Society of Montreal, through 
PRoFEssor T. WrestEyY MILLs. 
The Natural History Society of Montreal has the honour of sub- 
mitting to the Royal Society of Canada the following report:— 
The Society has a very good year’s work to report. The monthly 
meetings have been unusually well attended. The communications 
made at the meetings were as follow :— 
1900. 
Oct. 29.—“ The Utica formation around Ottawa,” by Dr. H. M. Ami. 
“Newly reported plants of the Island of Montreal,” by 
Rev. Robert Campbell, M.A., D.D. 
Noy. 26.— Life History of the Camberwell ‘ Beauty Butterfly,’ ” by 
A. E. Norris. 
“Was Mount Royal an Active Volcano?” by J. S. Buchan, 
BCE UKC: 
1901. 
Jan. 28.—“ Human Organism,” by Dr. F. S. Jackson. 
Feb. 25.—“ The Extinct Volcanoes of Central France,” by Dr. Frank 
D. Adams. 
