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Norwegian phosphates have no fluorine but chlorides instead, 

 and therefore must have had their origin before animal life. 



Mr. Levey thought phosphorus in the rocks a primary 

 element ; in bones, only a secondary. 



Mr. Livingston remarked that other stones besides phos- 

 phates were fertilizers. 



The President said that the analysis of the phosphates was 

 similar to that of bones, but that was no evidence that vege- 

 table preceded animal life ; that iron and carbon occur in con- 

 nection with organic remains ; without carbon there is no life ; 

 phosphates occur in the same rocks with graphite, eozoon 

 Canadense and crystalline limestone ; and even accepting the 

 view stated, the difficulty is only carried a step back. 



ANNUAL MEETING. 



The Thirty-Sixth Annual Meeting was held on 2nd May, 

 1885, the President in the Chair. 



The minutes of the last annual meeting were read and con- 

 firmed. 



The following list of donations and exchanges was read : 



1. The Oaiiadian Entomologist, Vol. XVII., No. 3, March, 1885. 



2. Report of the Minister of Education (Ontario), for 1884, with the Statistics 



of 1883. 



3. The Canadian Practitioner, May 1885. 



4. Monthly Health Bulletin of Ontario for December, 1884, and January and 



February, 1885. 



5. Science, Vol. 5, No. 116, April 24th, 1885. 



6. Journal of the Franklin Institute, May, 1885. 



7. Annual Reports of the Trustees of the Peabody Academy of Science, Salem, 



Mass., 1874 to 1884. 



8. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. XLV., No. 5, 



March, 1885. 



9. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, Series II., Vol. V., Part 2, 



April, 1885. 



10. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, Vol. XXL, Parts 1 and 2. 



Do. Palaeontologia indica, Series XIII., Vol. I., Part 4. Fasciculi 3 

 and 4. 



