138 JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS 



OPENING OF OUR NEW PREMISES. 



September 14th, i8go. 



As intimated in the Report of the Council presented to the 

 Association at the annual meeting held in May last, we have taken 

 possession of our new room in the Public Library Building. 



The specimens in the museum have all been removed and re- 

 arranged in the cases in their new quarters. 



The room is a great improvement on the one we have left. 

 The location is better, and the room more commodious and airy, 

 and it is better lighted. 



The Association is much indebted to the Curator, Mr. A. 

 Gaviller, Mr. A. E. Walker and Colonel Grant, who did the most of 

 the work of packing up and re-arranging the specimens. 



The room was formally opened on the same day as the 

 Art School and the Free Library were inaugurated. On that occa- 

 sion the Earl and Countess of Aberdeen, Sir Daniel Wilson, of the 

 Toronto lUniversity, the Hon. G. W. Ross, Minister of Education, 

 and others visited the room, and were received by the members of 

 the Council and their wives. 



At the subsequent meeting in ths Library his Lordship, as well 

 as our President, Mr. B. E. Charlton, advocated the claims of our 

 Association before the citizens assembled. Setting forth at length 

 its advantages in giving an impetus and aid to literary and scien- 

 tific studies. 



The prospects for the future of our Association are brighter than 

 they have been for many years, though we have had several losses 

 by removal of valuable active members whose places will be very 

 difificult to fill. 



