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fore. It has many young and earnest men ^interested in 

 its prosperity, and has a hold on the esteem and liberality of 

 the public which must ensure it a still higher and more use- 

 ful career in the future. You have been so kind as to refer 

 to the university with which I am connected, and in which 

 education in science has made great progress in recent 

 years. I am happy to know that between it and this society 

 there have always been the most cordial relations, which 

 have been cemented by many mutual benefits. It is an ad- 

 ditional pleasure to me that the portrait now to be placed 

 on the walls of this societ}^ has been contributed to by so 

 many personal friends, long associated with me, all of them 

 in the work of this society. I may add that it is an ad- 

 ditional pleasure that the function of presenting it has been 

 placed in the hands of my friend the Hon. Mr. Murphy, who 

 has been for so long a valuable member of this society ; 

 who has always been a zealous friend and patron of science 

 and who has been considered worthy of being one of the 

 lords in the Senate of Canada. 



Mr. Stevenson Brown presented Lady Dawson with an ex- 

 tremely tasteful bouquet, after which, in a few judiciously 

 chosen terms, he accepted the picture on behalf of the 

 society, and as curator, promised to give it a prominent 

 place in the museum. 



After adjournment, the audience passed two hours most 

 pleasantly, in an inspection of the collections and of micro- 

 scopical specimens which were kindly placed on exhibition 

 by members of the Microscopical Society. 



