NINETEENTH ORDINARY MEETING 271 
dividing the Institute into sections, in accordance with the 
suggestions contained in the President’s Inaugural Address. 
To the Members of the Canadian Institute : 
“Your Committee beg to recommend that the Institute should 
request the Natural History Society to appoint a Committee from 
that body, to confer with them on the best mode of dealing with the 
recommendations and suggestions contained in the Address.” 
On motion by Mr. VanderSmissen, seconded by Mr. Marl- 
ing, the Report was adopted. 
It was moved by Mr. Marling, seconded by Dr. Kennedy, 
and carried, “ That the Secretary be instructed to correspond 
with the Secretary of the Natural History Society, requesting 
him to convey the wish that the Society would appoint a 
Committee to meet a Committee of the Institute.” 
The following list of donations and exchanges was read : 
1. Monthly Weather Review, Dominion of Canada, for February, 1885. 
2. ‘On the Superficial Deposits and Glaciations of the District in the Vicinity 
of the Bow and Belly Rivers,” by George M. Dawson, D.S.F.G.S., 
F.R.S.C. Presented by the Author. 
3. Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, N.S., Vol. IIL., Part 3. 
4. Science, Vol. V., No. 110, March 13th, 1885. 
5. Minutes and Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Name- 
Index, Vols. I. to LVIII., Sessions 1837 to 187879. 
6. Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, Vol. VII., No. 3, N.S.. 
March, 1885. 
7. Correspondenz-Blatt der Deutschen Gesellschaft fiir Anthropologie, Ethno- 
logie, und Urgeschichte, XVI. Jahrgang, No. 1 u 2, Januar unc 
Februar, 1885. 
§. Le Globe, Journal Géographique, Organe de la Société de Géographie de 
Genéve, Tome XXIV., Quatriéme Série, Tome IV. Bulletin No. 1, 
Novembre, 1884—Janvier, 1885. 
Mr William Dick was elected a member. 
Mr. A. B. Macallum, B.A., read the following paper on 
“The Alimentary Canal in Ganoid Fishes :” * 
The Alimentary Canal in Acipenser, Amia, and Lepidosteus 
shows several peculiarities of structure over and above what are 
* The subject-matter of this short description is treated more fully in a paper communicated 
to the English Journal of Anatomy and Physiology 
