436 Canadian Record of Science. 
W. Mills, A. H. Holden, P.S. Ross, J. A. U. Beaudry, Dr. 
Campbell, J.S. Brown, E. T. Chambers, Geo. Sumner, H. T. 
Martin, Jas. Gardner, Dr. Stirling, Dr. Ruttan, J. H. R. 
Molson, J. H. Joseph, Rev. Dr. Campbell, F. B. Caulfield, 
Dr. J. B. Edwards. 
THE PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS. 
GENTLEMEN,—We have, I think, good reason to congra- 
tulate ourselves at the end of the session just closed that 
this oldest of Canadian scientific societies shows no sign of 
senility but rather of new life and energy. The improve- 
ments made in our building, museum and library, through 
the care and activity of the council, the house committee, 
the honorary curator, Mr, Stevenson Brown, and the libra- 
rian, Mr. Chambers, the additions to our list of members, 
the eminent specialists whose services were secured for the 
Sommerville course of lectures, the importance of that 
course with reference to the industrial interests of the pro- 
vince, the valuable papers read at our monthly meetings 
and published in our journal, the admirable excursions to 
Montebello and Abbotsford, so well planned and carried out 
through the kindness of our friends, Mr. Papineau and Mr. 
Gibb, the successful and brilliant Conversazione in which we 
were honored with the presence of their Excellencies Lord 
and Lady Stanley of Preston, are among the features of 
a most useful and prosperous year. They are noticed in 
other reports to be presented this evening, and it falls to 
me in this address rather to direct your attention to the 
more strictly scientific portions of our work, and more 
especially to the papers read before the Society and pub- 
lished in the Record of Science, and which may be considered, 
so far as they extend, as steps in advance in Canadian 
science. They were summarized by our delegate, the Rev, 
Dr. Campbell, at the recent meeting of the Royal Society in 
Ottawa, but they deserve a little more detailed notice here. 
According to the list, kindly prepared for me by the 
Recording Secretary, Mr. Holden, twenty original papers 
