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make our ‘“‘ Field Day” one of the most interesting and 
enjoyable in the history of the Society. 
The usual course of Sommerville Lectures, six in number, 
was delivered last winter to large and appreciative audiences, 
affording those present much pleasure and profit. The 
museum was open to the public in the evening for one 
hour before the commencement of the lectures. The sub- 
jects, with the names of the lecturers, were as follows:— 
Thursday, Feb. 16th—“ Climate in Geological Time.” By Sir J. W. 
Dawson, F.R.S., C.M.G. 
Thursday, Feb. 23rd—“ Climate; the present Atmospheric Condi- 
tions of the Globe.” By Professor C. H. McLeod, M.A.Sc. 
Thursday, March Ist—‘“ Climate in relation to Vegetation.” By 
Professor D. P. Penhallow, B.Sc., F.R.S.C. 
Thursday, March 8th—“ Weather Probabilities.” By Charles 
Carpmael, M.A., F.R.S.C. 
Thursday, March 15th—“ The Climate of the Canadian West.” By 
Ernest Ingersoll, Esq. 
Thursday, March 22nd—“ Climate in relation to Health.” By Dr. 
T. G. Roddick. 
The thanks of the Society are certainly due to the dis- 
tinguished gentlemen, who so kindly delivered the lectures 
last winter, and to those who contributed to the Museum 
during the year. 
On the 29th January, 1383, through the efforts of the Rev. 
Robert Campbell, the late Mr. Marler was appointed one of 
a committee of three to collect funds for a monument to the 
late Rev. James Sommerville (the founder of the Sommer- 
ville Lectures), in Mount Royal Cemetery. Nothing was 
done in the matter until last year, when the Rev. Dr. 
Campbell, Mr. A. MacNaugton and the Chairman of Council, 
succeeded in collecting sufficient funds from members of this 
society, and others, to put up a monument, with an appro- 
priate inscription, to mark the resting place of one of 
Montreal’s early benefactors. It will not be out of place for 
me in connection with the above to quote a few words de- 
livered in this hall sometime ago by our honoured President. 
He says: ‘“‘Such men are few and deserve commemoration, 
and it may be well to think also of the fact that, in bear- 
ing them in remembrance, we stimulate others to like 
