JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS. 15 
INAUGURAL ADDRESS. 
Delivered Nov. rath, root. 
BY S. A. MORGAN, D. PAID. 
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN : 
When I consider how extensive and varied an exhibit of the 
work of our members is awaiting your inspection, and how much 
more interesting these must prove than the weighing of abstract 
: speculations, I feel it a duty as well as a privilege to make my re- 
marks on this occasion as briefas possible. I cannot, however, omit 
the opportunity of conveying to you my appreciation of the honor 
you have conferred upon me in re-electing me to the high office of 
President of this Association, and of expressing the hope that the 
same kindly consideration and loyal support granted me by one and 
all during the past year, will also be extended through the present 
encumbancy. During the past year our Association has done much, 
not only to awaken and advance the scientific spirit within our own 
locality, but to furnish information and data for the assistance of 
scientists in other parts. Through the untiring efforts of our Geolog- 
ical Section, under the leadership of Col. C. C. Grant, we are 
credited with having made large additions to the leading Museums 
of America and England, including the Dominion Museum at 
Ottawa, the Washington Museum and the British Museum of Natural 
History. Of the excellent work being done by the members of 
our Camera Section, it is scarcely necessary for me at this time to 
make mention—S7z monumentum queris, circumspice. 
While not wishing to detain you with any lengthy remarks, I 
may, perhaps, be pardoned if I ask you for a few minutes to review 
the more important events of the past year, which appeal to us 
as members of a scientific organization. As a society, we have been 
called on to mourn the loss of two of our most esteemed and hon- 
ored past-presidents, in the persons of Dr. J. D. MacDonald and Mr. 
