I.— Report of the Natural History Society of Montreal, 
Presented by Mr. Harry BR4GG, M.J.I., Honorary Librarian and 
Delegate. 
The Natural History Society of Montreal, which is now in the 
eighty-fourth year of its age, is pleased to be able to state that its work 
during the past year, so far as the regular courses of Free Public Lec- 
tures are concerned, has been carried on energetically and successfully, 
and that the larger attendance of the public has shown ever increasing 
interest in the questions chosen for these lectures. The Saturday after- 
noon lectures for Children were so popular that a larger room had to be 
secured to accommodate the audiences, while the large Hall of the 
Y. M. C. A. Building was crowded at several lectures of the Somerville 
Course. 
The Programmes of the Three Courses given by the Society were 
as follows:— 
REGULAR MonTHLY MEETINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 
“The Work of the St. Andrew’s Biological Station,” by Dr. D. P. 
Penhallow. 
“Animal and Plant Life in the Mackenzie Basin,” by Fred St. 
Lawrence, F.R.G.S. 
“The Natural History of Death,” by Prof. J. C. Simpson. 
“The Mineral Resources of Northern Ontario and Quebec,” by Dr. 
Alfred E. Barlow, 
“The Sleeping Sickness,” by Dr. John L. Todd, M.D. 
SOMERVILLE LECTURES. 
“ Halley’s Comet,” by Rev. I. J. Kavanagh, 8.J., M.A. 
“The Ice Problem in the St. Lawrence,” by Dr. Howard T. Barnes, 
F.R.S.C. 
“The Nature and Origin of Ore Deposits,” by Dr. Frank D. Adams, 
PhD) BRS. RSC. 
“The Quebec Bridge,” by Henry Holgate, C.E. 
“Eight Months in the Swamps of West Africa,” by Hilder Daw, 
C.E. 
“Heredity and Environment,” by Prof. Carrie M. Derrick, M.A. 
“Darwin’s Centennial,” by Rev. Robert Campbell, D.D. 
