142 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



21. Nordisk Tidskrift for Filologie, Vol. VII., Hrefte I, II, Copenhagen. 



22. Tijdschrift voor Nijverheid e Laudbouw in N ederlandsch Indie, Dee 



XXXI, Aflevering VI, Batavia, 1885 ; Billiton Opstetten door P. H. 

 Vander Kemp III. 



23. Monatliche Mittheilungen des naturwissenschaftlichen Vereines des 



Eegiei'ungsbezirks Frankfurt-a-0., 3 Jahrgang, Nos. 9, 10. 



24. Wocheuschrift des osterreichischen Ingenieur und Architekten Vereines, 



Wien, 12 Februar, 1886. 



25. Cronica Cientifica, Barcelona, Afio IX, Num. 196. Feb. 10, 1886. 



26. Compte Rendu de la Societe de Geographie, Paris, No. 4, pp. 113-150. 



27. Journal des Societes Scientifiques No. 7, Title Page and Contents for 1885. 



28. Verhandluugen der Gesellschaft fiir Erdkuude zu Berlin, Band XIII, 



No. 1. 



29. Real Academia de Ciencias Morales y Politicas, Madrid, Resumen de sus 



Actos yDiscursos 1862, 1866, 1871, 1876, 1883, 1884, 1885, Estatutos 

 y Reglamentos de la Academia, Anuario de 1886. 

 Total 57. 



Mr. J. B. Williams read a paper on " The Destruction of 

 Wild Animals and the Means that should be Taken for Their 

 Preservation," of which the following is an abridgment : 



If we walk through the forest on some bright spring morning, all 

 nature seems to rejoice around us. Squirrels are sporting, birds are 

 singing, insects flitting in every direction. 



It is difficult then to realize, or remember, what a struggle for 

 existence all these creatures pass through at some period or other of 

 their life. Every creature naturally increases at so high a rate, that 

 if multitudes were not destroyed, the earth would soon be covered 

 by the progeny of a single pair. This applies to the more slowly 

 breeding, as well as to those that increase annually by the hundred 

 or the thousand. 



What are the means employed by nature to keep in check this too 

 superabundant life 1 



To eat and to be eaten is the end and object for which multitudes 

 of creatures seem to exist. Almost every creature serves as food for 

 some other creature, and the struggle for existence causes a continual 

 destruction of old forms by new and more highly developed races. 



The causes which determine the survival and distribution of each 

 species are very often complex and unknown to us. 



Climate, the supply of food, and, in recent times, the influence of 

 the human race, are some of the causes which have determined the 

 ■ existence and the range of our present species. 



