It8 Canadian Record of Science. 



Proceedings of the Natural History Society. 



The Fifth Monthly Meeting of the session took place on 

 Monday evening, March 29th, 1886. 



Sir William Dawson, the President, occupied the chair. 



The minutes of the previous meeting and also those of 

 the last council meeting were read and approved. 



Donations to the Library were announced: from Dr. 

 Wolfred Nelson, of Panama, of a hook containing over a 

 hundred photographs taken by him in Guatemala; from 

 Thomas Macfarlane, Esq., of Ottawa, of a bound copy of his 

 papers " On the primitive formations in Norway and Ca- 

 nada " and other subjects; and from E. T. Chambers, Esq., 

 of a copy of " Lettres sur Les Roches du Jura," by Jules 

 Marcou. For these donations votes of thanks were passed.' 



The President called attention to the rather unfavorable 

 tenor of the Hon. J. Gr. Robertson's letter in response to the 

 petition for a renewal of the Government grant. 



The first paper of the evening was then read by A. T. 

 Drummond, Esq., on " Our North-west Prairies, their Origin 

 and their Forests," which elicited remarks from Sir William 

 Dawson, Charles Gribb, Alex. McGribbon and others. 



Professor Penhallow followed with Dr. Robert Bell's 

 article on the Forests of Canada, when further criticism of 

 both papers took place. 



The thanks of the Society were tendered to both authors 

 for their valuable communications. 



The Sixth Monthly Meeting was held on Monday 

 evening, May 3rd, 1886, Dr. Harrington occupying the 

 chair. 



The minutes of the meetings of 29th March and 26th 

 April were read and confirmed. The minutes of council 

 meeting of April 19th were also read. 



Regarding the grant, Mr. J. A. U. Beaudry reported the 

 receipt of a private communication from the Premier 

 of the Province, intimating that the petition of the Society 

 would have his personal attention and hoping to secure at 

 least a portion of the sum asked for. 



