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As an evidence of the work we have accoin])Ushed, the lists [nib- 

 lished ill our Transactions are worthy of notice. In tlie tiehl of Botany 

 920 plants have been collected ; of shells we have found 208 species ; of 

 birds 198 ; of fishes 48; and of insects 1004. This last collection, pre- 

 sented by Mr. Harrington during the past winter, is one of special 

 merit. It is arranged and named after the revised classification of Drs. 

 LeConte and Horn, and is probably the first so adopted in this country. 

 As all the collections have been made within a few miles of this city, I 

 think we can reasonably claim to have one of the most thoroughly 

 worked districts of Canada. This local study of Natural History is one- 

 we would earnestly ask the Royal Society to encourage. Were local 

 societies, instead of wandering aimlessly among tlie paths of natural 

 science, to devote themselves to this work, and report it to the meeting."* 

 of your Society, there would soon be accumulated a fund of informatioii 

 more perfect and complete than by any other method. 



May, 28th, 1881. 



