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bearing the date 1852, but its example was soon followed by the 

 Natural History Society of Montreal, which in 1856 began the publica- 

 tion of The Canadian Naturalist and Geologist, this, after 1884, giving 

 place to the Canadian Record of Science. In Halifax the Nova Scotian 

 Institute of Science was organized toward the end of 1862 and the first 

 number of its Proceedings and Transactions made its appearance in 

 1863, the first volume bearing the date 1867. A little later, in 1868, 

 the Naturaliste Canadien made its appearance and in the following 

 year the Canadian Entomologist completed its first volume, while in 

 1879 the Transactions of the Ottawa Field Naturalists Club began to 

 appear, continuing until 1886, after which date its name was altered 

 to The Ottawa Naturalist. In 1882 the first Bulletin of the Natural 

 History Society of New Brunswick was published, in the same year the 

 first number of the Proceedings and Transactions of the Hamilton 

 Association made its appearance and in 1883 The Historical and 

 Scientific Society of Manitoba began the publication of its Trans- 

 actions. Many valuable papers, highly creditable to Canadian 

 Science, are to be found in these various publications, and the fact 

 that so many periodicals were successfully maintained in a Country 

 whose entire population even in 1890 did not amount to five million 

 souls is no uncertain evidence of the wide-spread interest and enthus- 

 iasm shown for scientific studies. 



The mention of the names of those who by their contributions 

 to the Journals helped to sustain that interest and enthusiasm, would 

 make a long list. Let me rather content myself with brief references 

 to some of those no longer with us, the pioneers in Canadian Zoology 

 who 



" wandered away and away 



With Nature, the dear old nurse;" 



and found their greatest delight in listening to the wonderful tales 

 she had to tell.* 



And to begin with the far West the name of W. K. Lord is the 

 first that comes to one's mind. A Cornishman who practised for a 

 time as a Veterinarian in Tavistock and later embarked upon an 

 adventurous career, starting with a whaling voyage which ended in 

 shipwreck and followed by several years of trapper's life in the North- 

 west and by service in the Crimea attached to the Turkish contingent. 

 On the establishment of British Columbia as a colony, which followed 

 the discovery of gold in the Fraser River in 1858, Lord was appointed 

 naturalist to the Commission appointed to mark out the 49th parallel 

 and took up his residence on Vancouver island. The outcome of 

 this was the publication in 1866 of his work entitled The Naturalist in 



