Proceedings of the Society. 189 



Proceedings of the Society. 



The regular monthly meeting was held on Monday the 

 21st of April, Sir Win. Dawson presiding. 



Mr. Shearer, on behalf of the Excursion Committee, 

 reported that Lachute had been selected for the annual 

 field day, and that Saturday the Tth of June had been 

 decided upon. 



The following donation to the museum was reported by 

 the Curator : — 



Prairie horned lark, by Mr. F. B. Caulfield, for which 

 the thanks of the Society were tendered the donor. 



It was moved by Mr. Sumner, seconded by Mr. Beaudry, 

 " that proposals for membership may be submitted to the 

 Council at their monthly meetings and balloted for at the 

 first meeting of the Society following." Carried. Balloting 

 for new members resulted in the election of James Paton, 

 Dr. F. J. Shepherd and George Boulter. 



The Corresponding Secretary was instructed to invite the 

 Ottawa Field Naturalists' Club and other societies from 

 that city to participate in the field day excursion of this 

 Society. 



Sir William Dawson offered a paper " On the name 

 Quebec Group as applied to certain Canadian Bocks." 



Mr. H. T. Martin submitted a few notes on the beaver, 

 and Mr. F. B. Caulfield read a contribution on the subject 

 of " Our Winter Birds." 



The annual meeting of the Society was held on Monday 

 the 26th of May, when the following reports were read and 

 adopted 1 and ordered to be printed in the Record of Science. 



Mr. President, Gentlemen, 



On behalf of your Council I have the honor to report. 



The work of the Society for the year has been successful 

 and attended with much interest. 



The Society has had six general meetings, the Council 

 ten meetings, three of which were special ones. 



1 The Presidential address will be found printed in full on p. 171. 



