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In addition to the usual representation of members, there 

 were present a large number of citizens, who assembled to 

 participate in the presentation of a portrait of the President 

 to the Society. 



After the usual routine business had been transacted, Mr. 

 J. S. Shearer was moved to the chair, upon taking which 

 he announced the special business of the evening, and 

 stated that the very fine portrait, executed by Harris, had 

 been presented to the Society by the following friends and 

 members : Messrs. John H. E. Molson, J. Stevenson Brown, 

 Charles Gibb, B. J. Harrington, Sir Donald A. Smith, Prof. 

 D. P. Penhallow, M ssrs. P. S. Eoss, E. B. Greenshields, W. 

 Drysdale, Eobert Mackay, Samuel Finley, John S. Shearer, 

 Albert Holden, George Sumner, E. T. Chambers, Hon. 

 Edward Murphy, Messrs. Jonathan Hodgson, J. H. Joseph, 

 Chas. Alexander, E. K. Greene, James Gardner, G. E. 

 Prowse, J. A. U. Beaudry, and Major Latour. 



The Chairman then introduced the Hon. Senator Murphy, 

 who presented the following address to Sir Wm. Dawson : — 



To Sir William Dawson, LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S., C.M.G.: 



We, the Council and members of the Natural History Society of 

 Montreal, take advantage of the occasion of the uncovering of this 

 portrait of yourself, with which we seek to adorn our walls, to ac- 

 knowledge the obligations under which you have laid our society 

 in particular, as well as our appreciation of the distinguished ser- 

 vices which you have rendered to science in general. 



It is now thirty-four years since your name was first enrolled as 

 a member of this society, and from that time until now you have 

 labored assiduously to promote its objects. No fewer than twenty 

 times have you, by the suffrages of the members, been elected to the 

 presidency, the highest office in their gift, although they have felt 

 that you have done greater honor to the society than the society 

 could confer upon you, in accepting this office at their hands, while 

 you have been no less active in working in the interests of the 

 society when not occupying the presidential chair. 



We gratefully recognize the spirit of the true scientist in the 

 readiness which you have ever shown to devote time and energy 

 to furthering the aims of the society, when the pressing nature of 

 your important professional duties might well have been pleaded 

 as an excuse for declining to charge yourself with the responsi- 

 bilities in connection with our humble undertakings. We desire to 



