152 Miscellaneous. 



congratulation. Showing, as these facts most assuredly do, the hon- 

 orable position accorded to the institute in the estimation of the 

 Province. 



"It is believed that the papers read will compare favorably with 

 those of other years : more especially, as several have been deemed 

 worthy of re-publication in some of the leading Scientific Journals 

 of Europe. It is also gratifying to observe, with regard to those pa- 

 pers, that the appeals of preceding Councils for more active co- 

 operation on the part of Members generally, has been to a great 

 extent responded to. The present Council venture, therefore, to 

 express a hope that a still more extended co-operation in this de- 

 partment, may be anticipated in the session now about to com- 

 mence. 



" Feeling strongly that the success of the Institute is dependent 

 on, or at least largely influenced by, the success of its Journal, 

 the Council have great satisfaction in alluding to the now fairly 

 established and very marked success which has accompanied the 

 issue of the new series of the " Canadian Journal," under, the edit- 

 orship of Dr. Wilson and a Committee appointed by the respective 

 Councils of 1855 and 1856. The Council cannot allow this op- 

 portunity to pass without expressing an earnest desire that some 

 special recognition on the part of the Members of the Institute, 

 be devised to mark their sense of the- zealous and valuable services 

 of the chief editor." 



Rejoicing as we do in the prosperity of the Canadian Institute, 

 and recognising it as a worthy representative of Canadian Science, 

 we are desirous of making its prosperity a reason why in the Natu- 

 ral History Society of Montreal similar vigour should be exhi- 

 bited. We trace the rapid growth of the Institute, in the first 

 place to the active exertions of $ few leading scientific and 

 literary men in Toronto, more especially of the Professors of 

 University College. In the next place, to the regular publication 

 of its Journal and the ability of the Society to give this publica- 

 tion to every member for a subscription, the whole amount of 

 which is not more than the price of the Journal itself. Lastly, 

 the large public aid received by the Institute, has given it the 

 means thus liberally to repay its members their subscriptions and 

 otherwise to extend its operations^ 



In the case of the Natural History Society of Montreal, we have 

 now a body of active members fully able by their Scientific and 

 Literary exertions to sustain the Society ; and we have a 



