LXXVI ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



The election of ofiScers for the ensuing year resulted as follows : — 

 President — Mgr, J. C. K. Laflamme. 

 Vice-President — Mr. Lawrence Lam be. 

 Secretary — Prof. J. J. McKenzie. 

 All of which is respectfully submitted, 



Lawrence M. Lambe, 



Secretary. 

 • Papers Pead ix Section IV. 



1. — Presidential Address. — The Fiftieth Anniversary of the publica- 

 tion of Darwin's '' Origin of Species." By Professor A. B. Macallum, 

 F.RS. 



2. — The Composition of the Blood of Limulus and of the Shark. 

 By Professor A. B. Macallum, F.R.S. 



3. — The Secretion of Hydrochloric Acid in the Stomach. By Miss 

 M. P. Fitzgerald. Presented by Professor A. B. Macallum. 



4. — The Palaeozoic Breccias of the Island of Montreal. By Eobert 

 Harvie, M.Sc. Presented by Dr. Frank D. Adams. 



5. — The Fossil Fauna of the Breccias of St. Helen's Island, near 

 Montreal. By Henry S. Williams, Ph.D., Professor of Geology, Cornell 

 University. Presented by Dr. Frank D. Adams. 



6. — Bibliography of Canadian Entomology for the year 1908. By 

 the Eev. Charles J. S. Bethune, D.C.L. 



7. — Bibliography of Canadian Zoology for 1908 (exclusive of En- 

 tomology). By Lawrence M. Lambe, F.G.S. 



8. — yEsculin-bile-salt media for the Isolation of B. coli and B. 

 typhosus. By Professor F. C. Harrison, and J. Vanderleck. Presented 

 by Lawrence M. Lambe. 



9. — Bacteriological Analyses of Ottawa Eiver Water. By Professor 

 F. C. Harrison and J. Vanderleck. Presented by Lawrence M. Lambe. 



10. — The Geological Factors in the Physiography of New Bruns- 

 wick. By L. W. Bailey, Ph.D. 



11. — Notes on the Geology of the Scotch Oil Shales, and their rela- 

 tion to similar shales found in Canada. By E. W. Ells, LL.D. 



12. — On the Geological Age of the Little Eiver Group. By Dr. G. 

 F. Matthew. 



13. — Eevision of the Floi-a of the Little Eiver Group. By Dr. G. 

 F. Matthew. 



14. — Eemarkable forms of the Little Eiver Group. By Dr. G. F. 

 Matthew. 



1,5. — The Drift of Alberta, and the Eclations of the Cordilleran and 

 Keewatin Ice Sheets. By Professor A. P. Coleman, Ph.D. 



