PROCEEDINGS FOR 1890 CV 



the council to this section, Professor Ramsay Wright was unanimously 

 elected to till that im])ortant ])()sition. 



The committee re the establishment of a Marine Bicjlogical Station 

 in Canada would recommend to the o-eneral society the adoi^tion of the 

 following report : 



"The Eoyal Society of Canada fully a[)})reciating the great advan- 

 tages of an economic and scientific character to be derived from the 

 maintenance of a marine biological station, desire to recognize the 

 im]iortance of the report on this subject presented by the Commissioner 

 of Fisheries in 1894. and to urge upon the government the desirability of 

 taking steps at an early date to bring those recommendations into force. 



'■ I). P Penhallow. 

 • T. J. W. Burgess. 

 " J. F. Whiteaves." 

 An expression of regret at the death of Professor Lawson was 

 passed by the section, and Dr. Mackay was deputed to convey the same 

 to the family of their late fellow member. 



The publication committee report a recommendation to publish the 

 following papers of those submitted to them : 



"Coal Mining in Pictou County, N.S.," by E. Gilpin, Jr., LL.D. 

 " Generic C'haracters of the North American Taxacese and Conifera?," 



by Prof Penhallow. 

 " Additional Xotes on Fossil Sj)onges and other Oi"ganic Remains 



from the Quebec Group at Little Metis," b}' Sir Wm. Dawson. 

 " On the Sequence of Strata comprised in the Southwest Quarter- 

 Sheet Map of the Eastern Townships of the Province of 

 Quebec,^' by H. M. Ami, M.A., D.Sc. 

 "Some observations tending to show the occuiTcnce of Secular 



Climatic Changes in British Columbia," by Dr. G. M. Dawson. 

 "Further observations on Trophoclasts in Fishes' Eggs," by Sir 



James Grant and Professor Prince. 

 "A Study of the Pelvic Girdle of the Pike," by Professor Prince. 

 " The Spawning Habits, Coloration and Form of the Sockeye Salmon 



of British Columbia," by Professor Prince. 

 " Cortical Cerebral Localization," by Professor Mills. 

 ^' The Functional Development of the Cerebral Cortex in Ditferent 



Groups of Animals," by Professor Mills. 

 " The Psychic Development of Young Animals," by Prof. Mills. 

 " Palteozoic Outliers of the Ottawa Piver Basin," b}^ Dr. YÀ\9,. with 



Appendix, liy Dr. H. M. Ami. 

 "Contributions to the Pleistocene Flora of Canada," by Prof. Pen- 

 hallow. 

 *' Past Experiences and Future Prospects of Fruit Growing in the 

 Canadian North went," by Dr. Saunders. 



