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Geological Survey and other points of interest could be seen. The Richelieu & 

 Ontario Navigation Company's steamers would take others to Quebec, and on 

 'Thursday, the 31st, the South-Eastern Railway would take such as desired to go 

 to Lake Memphremagog. He concluded by saying that their only wish was that 

 all the members of the Association might carry away with them the impression 

 that the citizens of Montreal, one and all, felt the high honor of their visit to 

 the city and would do everything to make their stay in the city as pleasant as 

 possible. 



Mayor Beaudry was then introduced and extended the welcome of the city 

 to the members of the Association in graceful and appropriate words. 



Dr. Thorburn, of Ottawa, said that a public meeting had been held in that 

 city, and means taken to give a proper welcome to the members of the Associa- 

 tion. The capital had many attractions, and he was sure the members would be 

 pleased with their visit. 



Dr. Dawson then said, — It falls to me, gentlemen, to acknowledge on behalf 

 of the Association, the welcome with which you have given it. In doing so, I 

 have the advantage of knowing from personal observation the zeal and energy 

 which have been displayed by the members of the local committee, and the enthusi- 

 asm kindled by the occasion in the minds of the citizens generally. The occa- 

 sion is undoubtedly one worthy of the interest it has excited, not only in this and 

 neighboring cities, but in Canada generally. By its selection for the meeting of 

 this Association, Montreal becomes for the time the scientific capital of North 

 America, from which will go forth decrees more potent than those of parliaments, 

 and to which will be turned the eyes of all interested in the progress of Science 

 and the Scientific Arts. You do well to esteem highly the position thus confer- 

 red and to sustain it in the future by the actions of your own local institutions. 



The fact that we can congratulate ourselves on this occasion in the presence 

 of so many and so eminent men of science from the other side of the Atlantic is 

 due to the exertions of the Local Committee and to the liberahty of the citizens 

 of Montreal. I had the honor in 1856 to be the spokesman of a delegation which 

 went to Albany to invite this Association to hold the meeting in Montreal in 

 1857, which has been referred to. That meeting was a most successful one, 

 though, no doubt, far inferior in numbers to the present. It benefited this Asso- 

 ciation and the interests of science and gave a stimulus to the cause of scientific 

 education and research in Montreal, the effects of which still remain. May the 

 present meeting be still more agreeable and useful. Of the leading men of 

 science who took part in the meeting of 1857 many have passed away; Henry, 

 Logan, Bache, Pierce, Munro, Billings and Morgan are among these. But 

 many of the men who then stood high in science are with us to-day, and you now 

 welcome a large number of men who have since that time risen into eminence, 

 and of still younger men whose names will yet be widely known. To such young 

 and rising men you should, and I know do, extend a welcome as hearty as to 

 those who are their seniors and are better known to you. You welcome here to- 

 day a much larger body than that which you received in 1857. This is evidence 



