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mating that a formal application was necessary to obtain 

 the $200.00 granted by the " Elizabeth Thompson Science 

 Fund Trustees," and it was resolved that Prof. Penhallow 

 and the Chairman of Council, Mr. Shearer, be appointed a 

 committee to take action thereon, and associate with them 

 Prof. C. H. McLeod, of McGrill University, in the work of 

 investigating "underground temperatures." 



Prof. Donald then read a valuable paper entitled, "Chemical 

 Notes on Wheat and Flour," and the opinion was expressed 

 that this important paper should be followed by others bear- 

 ing on the further examination of the subject. Prof. Donald 

 answered several questions submitted to him, and displayed 

 a variety of samples of wh^at and flour. 



Prof. Mills followed with an interesting account of a visit 

 to the Bahamas, describing "Life on the Islands," and gave 

 a general outline, accompanied by diagrams on the black- 

 board, of the formation of coral reefs. At the close of the 

 address, Mr. J. Stevenson Brown moved, seconded by Mr. 

 Beaudry, that a vote of thanks be passed to both Prof. 

 Donald and Prof. Mills for their resj>ective papers. 



Prof. Mills kindly promised to return to the subject 

 again, and presented the Society with a number of speci- 

 mens exhibited during the course of his address, for which 

 the President expressed the thanks of the Society. 



A committee was named by the President, consisting of 

 John S. Shearer, Prof. Penhallow, J. A. U. Beaudry and the 

 Recording Secretary, to prepare and present to the mem- 

 bers of the Quebec Government a petition for the renewal 

 of the original grant of $1000 per annum, to be used exclu- 

 sively in the publication of the Record op Science. 



Dr. Harrington, Chairman of the Lecture Committee, 

 reported the following subjects for the Course of Somerville 

 Lectures, 1887 :— Thursday, February 17th, " The Bony 

 System," by Francis J. Shepherd, M.D. ; Thursday, Febru- 

 ary 24th, "The Muscular System," by George B. Arm- 

 strong, M.D. ; Thursday, March 3rd, " The Nervous Sys- 

 tem," by James Stewart, M.D. ; Thursday, March 10th, 

 "The Circulatory System," by T. Wesley Mills, M.A., M.D. ; 

 Thursday, March 17th, "The Special Senses," by Frank 



