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can be made, that a day be spent in the Jubilee Park at Niagara 

 Falls on Saturday, the 13th of June next. 



At the annual meeting of. the Royal Society of Canada, held in 

 Ottawa last year, our Association was ably represented by H. B. 

 Small, Esq., of Ottawa. This year our friend Mr. Thomas 

 Mcllwraith has consented to be our delegate to that learned body 

 at its forthcoming meeting at Montreal. Your Council feel that the 

 Association will be most worthily represented by Mr. Mcllwraith, 

 and that he will give a good account of himself and of us. 



We cannot close this report without referring to the loss we 

 have sustained in the removal from the city of our friend Mr. 

 Moffat, who has been so long connected with this Association, and 

 has done so much to sustain its character and standing. Mr. Moffat 

 is now the Curator of the Entomological Museum in London, and 

 we ask that he be elected an honorary member of the Association. 



We also regret to find that Mr. Hanham, the Secretary of the 

 Biological Section, has removed to the city of Brantford. Mr. 

 Hanham has really added a new department to that section, not 

 hitherto thought of, viz., that of Conchology. His industrious 

 collection and study of the land and fresh water shells of this neigh- 

 borhood is well-known to all of us. Not only has he introduced us 

 to a new department of Biology, but he has made several additions 

 of new species to the Canadian list of shells. We ask that he be 

 made a corresponding member of the Association. 



We have also lost a warm and generous friend of the Associa- 

 tion in the somewhat sudden death of Mr. Samuel Symons. His 

 valuable collection of models of British war vessels, as also the hand- 

 some stands for the cases of our museum, as well as the platform 

 table and President's chair, and various other articles of furniture in 

 our museum testify not only to his taste, but also to his generosity 

 and kindly feeling toward us. 



We conclude this report by expressing the hope that the mem- 

 bers will do their utmost to observe and note facts in their various 

 departments during the summer recess, so that material may be at 

 hand for the section work of the coming session. 



All of which is respectfully submitted. 



B. E. CHARLTON, President. 

 A. ALEXANDER, Secretary. 



