558 eeport— 1878. 



sentiments which still claim a response in the hearts of many. Although we are 

 less accustomed to see such words in works of science, that is no proof that 

 their significance has heen impaired by the marvellous progress of knowledge. 

 With the words which Linnaeus selected to place at the head of his great work I 

 will conclude — 



' O Jehova, 



Quam ampla sunt tua opera ! 



Quam sapienter eafecisti! 



Quam plena est terra possessione tua ! ' 



The following Papers were read : — 



1. Report of the Close-time Committee. — See Reports, p. 146. 



2. Eeport of the Committee on the Zoological Station at Naples. 

 See Reports, p. 149. 



3. On the Geographical Distribution of the Cheiroptera. 

 By Dr. G. E. Dobson. 



Ordered by the General Committee to be printed in extenso among the Reports. 



See p. 158. 



4. Notes on the Geographical Distribution and Migrations of Birds, fyc, on 

 the Northern Shores and Lands of Hudson's Bay. By J. Rae, M.D., 

 LL.D., F.B.G.S. 



Dr. Rae read a long paper on the above subject, chiefly with the object of supple- 

 menting the writings of Sir John Richardson, whose descriptions are in some 

 instances incomplete, in consequence of that admirable zoologist not having been 

 able to visit certain localities in the Hudson's Bay Company's territory, and having 

 had to depend upon the reports of others, who sometimes were not very conver- 

 sant with the subject. 



