L ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



The museum has received several donations during the past session, a 

 list of which will be found in the curator's report appended hereto. 

 All of which is respectfully submitted. 



J. Mauqiian, 



Chairman. 

 Robert Dewar, 



Seeretarij. 



Eeport of Curator of the Biological Section. 



Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen : 



When I entered upon my duties as curator last May, I found I had 

 no light task before me. Moth and dermestia were in full possession ; 

 some valuable skins destroyed beyond redemption, some that can not be 

 replaced. 



lam thankful to say the insect plague is now over, and although we 

 may never be able to say they are entirely banished (because of the lack 

 of mithtight cases"), j^et I trust they will be very scarce. 



During the year I have gone over all the specimens thoroughly, some 

 often. I have mounted some Corals, Gorgonian and Sponges which were 

 boxed up out of sight, and which I am pleased to say have met. with your 

 approval. The rooms have been made much more attractive by the loan 

 of a large number of cases of stutfed birds, by Mr. Maughan and another 

 gentleman. The last gift of the season is that of ninety-seven plants 

 from the Northwest, given by Miss Alice Hollingsworth, of Beatrice, 

 Muskoka, one of our corresponding members. 



1 cannot close this report without an earnest appeal to each member 

 to collect all they can this summer, in order that we may make some show 

 at the great meeting next year, and that if any of our visitors should 

 Avish any exchanges, we may be able to give them freely. 



All of which is respectfully submitted. 



C. Armstrong, 



Curator. 



RePOHT of the tJEOLO(aCAL AND MiNING SECTION OF THE CANADIAN 



Institute, Session 1895-96. 



To the President and Member.^ of the Canadian Institute : 



It is again the pleasant duty of this section to report and thus put 



on record the progress that has been made during the past session. 



Six meetings in all have been held during the session, at which five 



papers vvere read on the following subjects : 



" Ontario as a Mining Country," Prof. A. P, Coleman, Ph.D. (Open- 

 ing address). 



