ANNUAL MEETING OF THE NATURAL HISTORY 

 SOCIETY. 



At the Annual General Meeting of the Natural History Society of 

 Montreal, held on Tuesday evening, May 15th, 1858, — 

 Present : — Principal Dawson, President, in the chair ; Doctors 

 Wright, Fenwick, Jones, Fraser, Craik, Hingston, and Kolmeyer ; 

 and W. H. A. Davies, H. Rose, T. M. Taylor, E. Murphy, Jno. 

 Leeming, Jos. T. Dutton, Hen. Bouker, A. N. Rennie, D. Robert- 

 son, Esqrs. 



The Report of last Annual Meeting of the Society was read over 

 and confirmed. 



The Reports of the Council, Curator and Librarian, and Trea- 

 surer, were presented, — (they will be found below.) 



On motion of Mr. Davies, seconded by Mr. Leeming, 

 it was ordered, That the Report of the Council, with those 

 of the Curator and Treasurer, be received and printed under 

 the direction of the Council. 



The meeting then proceeded to the election of officers for the 

 ensuing year, and 



Messrs. Rose and Murphy were appointed Secretaries. 

 The election of Officers by ballot resulted as follows : 

 Principal Dawson, President, elected unanimously. 



Eev. A. de Sola, LL.D., 1st. Vice-President. 



The Anglican Lord Bishop of Montreal, . . 2d. " 



E. Billings, Esq., 3d. " 



Dr. Hingston, Corresponding Secretary. 



Jno. Leeming, Esq., Recording Secretary. 



Jas. Ferrier, Jun., Esq., Treasurer. 



Dr. Fenwick, Curator and Librarian. 



W. S. M. D'TJrbain, Sub- Curator. 



COUNCIL : 



Dr. Jones. Dr. Fraser. A. N. Rennie, Esq. 



W. H. A. Davies, Esq. W. Chapman, Esq. 



It was then moved by Mr. Murphy, seconded by Mr. Rose, 

 That the Secretaries be added to the Publishing Committee, 

 which was carried unanimously. 



Mr. Taylor, moved, seconded by Mr. Robertson, 

 That the thanks of the Society are hereby given to the retiring 

 Office-bearers aud Council for their valuable and efficient services 

 during the past year. Carried unanimously. 



