THE PROVENCHER SOCIETY 



enjoys the popular confidence manifested from time to time by great 

 financial support. As a case in point we may mention the princely 

 gift of $336,000 conferred on the Association at his death by Mr- 

 Wilcox. The Society employs by the year lecturers to instruct the 

 public and the different organizations by means of illustrated lectures. 

 During the summer it gives at its own expense special courses to these 

 instructors. It has an ornithological department, the object of which 

 is to encourage people to attract near their dwellings, by different 

 artificial means, wild birds, etc. 



The "Provencher Society of Natural History of Canada'^ believes 

 that the best means for arriving at this goal is to imitate this American 

 Association by creating a great national movement through our educa- 

 tional institutions. It is, in a word, the generation of to-morrow that 

 our national institution wishes to inform. 



Coy instruction and by persuasion it will improve the mode of 

 protection of our wild life, it will aim at the development of our fisheries 

 with the object of gaining the greatest profit possible for the pvblicj 

 it will study the best means or preserving the indigenous speci^sJ Our 

 programme may be abridged as follows : — 



(a) To study the natural history, specially of the animal 

 kingdom, and to create a sentiment in favor of its extension; 



(6) To cooperate with the federal and provincial authorities 

 and with organizations like sporting clubs, etc., to promote learning 

 and diffusion of knowledge of natural history in schools, colleges* 

 convents and universities, and for the protection and the increase 

 of native animals, mammifers, birds, fishes, etc. Although the object 

 is the protection of the native kind, the society does not reject to 

 the sportsman the right of hunting birds and other species of wild 

 fowl; 



(c) To expand our cynegetic resources and our fisheries; 



(d) To promote the establishment of schools of fisheries; 



(e) To appoint investigating commissions; 



(/) To let, acquire, and manaee land, organize ground of 

 alimentation for birds and game; 



{g) To let or acquire the rights to promote the propagation 

 and the increase of the species which are decreasing; 



{h) To study the lakes, rivers, streams, and gulfs of Canada in 

 connection with biology and oceanography; 

 {i) To found an information bureau; 

 ij) To publish magazines, newspapers, etc.; 

 {k) To possess libraries, museums; 

 if) To found professorships of natural history; 



