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a microscopical examination of thin sections of the wood, the species 
may be quite readily determined. 
Doctor Penhallow had great administrative ability. The last few 
years (from 1907) were devoted, as director, to the organization and 
arrangement of the Atlantic Coast Biological Station at Saint Andrews, 
New Brunswick. He was elected a Fellow of The Royal Society of 
Canada in 1885, and was president of Section IV in 1896-1897. He was 
also president for several years of the Natural History Society of Mont- 
real, and in 1899 of the Society of Plant Morphology and Physiology. 
From 1902-1904 he was chairman of the British Association Committee 
on the Ethnological Survey of Canada, and in 1909 acted in a similar 
capacity to the American Biological Research Stations. He was vice- 
president of the section of botany at the British Association meeting 
in 1897, and a trustee of the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods 
Hole, Massachusetts. He was also a Fellow of the American Associa- 
tion for the Advancement of Science and vice-president in 1909; a 
member of the Société Naturelle, of which he was vice-president in 1907 
and president in 1908; and was actively associated with many other 
leading scientific societies. In 1907 he was elected a Fellow of the 
Geological Society of America. 
From 1888-1890 he edited the Canadian Record of Science; from 
1897-1907 he was associate editor of the American Naturalist, and from 
1902-1907 was editor of palæobotany for the Botanisches Centralblatt. ’ 
His contributions to the Transactions of The Royal Society of 
Canada were numerous and valuable, and in his death the Society has 
to delpore the loss of one of its most useful and estimable members. 
VI.—ProPosAL TO CREATE NEW SECTIONS. 
When this matter was brought up at the last Annual Meeting, 
the Secretary of the Committee that had it in charge, Mr. Errol Bou- 
chette, reported that he had obtained by correspondence the views of 
the members of the Committee, and moved that the correspondence 
be printed for the information of members of the Society generally. 
The motion was adopted, and the correspondence has been printed 
and distributed. Consideration of the question may, therefore, be 
proceeded with in the present meeting. 
VII.—Tur MemoriaAt TOWER AT HALIFAX. 
À resolution was adopted at our last Annual Meeting expressing 
the sympathy of the Society with the movement to erect at Halifax 
a Memorial Tower to commemorate the establishment of representative 
