APPENDIX I. 



ADDRESSES PRESENTED TO THE ASSOCIATION. 



FROM THE MAYOR AND ALDERMEN OF MONTREAL. 



[Presented August 27.] 



To the President and Members of the British Association for the Advancement 



of Science. 



Gentlemen, — It is with no common pleasure that we, the Mayor and Alder- 

 men of Montreal, welcome to this city and to Canada so distinguished a hody as 

 the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Already, indeed, not 

 only here, but throughout the length and breadth of the land, that welcome has 

 been pronounced with a heartiness to which we are proud to add the confirmation 

 of formal expression. 



During the last two years, and especially since the acceptance of our invitation 

 made it a certainty, your coming amongst ns has been looked forward to as an 

 event of deep and manifold importance to the Dominion. 



Aware of the devotion with which the Association had, for more than half a 

 century; applied itself to the object indicated in its name, and knowing that its 

 present membership comprised the most eminent of those noble students and in- 

 vestigators who have made the search after truth the aim of their lives, we could 

 not fail to perceive that Canada would gain by the presence of observers and 

 thinkers so exact and so unprejudiced. Nor were we without hope that in the 

 vast and varied expanse of territory which constitutes the Dominion, our learned 

 visitors would meet with features of interest that should be some compensation for 

 so long and wearisome a journey. 



Here, in that great stretch of diversified region between the Atlantic and the 

 Pacific, the student of almost every branch of science must find something worth 

 learning ; whilst for certain sections of the Association, there are few portions of 

 the world in which the explorer is more likely to be gratified and rewarded. 



Throughout this broad domain of ours— rock and herb, forest and prairie, 

 lake and river, air and soil, with whatever life, or whatever relic of life in past 

 ages they may severally contain, afford to the diligent seeker of knowledge various 

 and ample scope for research. Nor to the student of man, as a social and political 

 being, is there less of opportunity for acquiring fresh facts and themes for reflec- 

 tion in a young commonwealth like this. 



We flatter ourselves that here you will find a people not unworthy of the 

 great races from which it has sprung, and that on your return to the mother land, 

 you will be able to speak with satisfaction, from your own experience, of our federal 

 system, our resources, our agriculture, our manufactures, our commerce, our insti- 

 tutions of learning, our progress, and our destinies. 



You have come, and we place our land, ourselves, and all we are and have at 

 your disposal. We bid you hearty welcome, and, in so honouring ourselves, we 

 only ask you to consider yourselves at home, remembering that you are still on 

 British soil. 



In conclusion, Mr. President and Gentlemen, we sincerely hope that your stay 



