iieport of Chairman of Council. 401 



Session 1900-1901. 



liEPORT OF Council. 



The Chairman of Council beg-s to submit the following 

 report for the year ending May 31st, 1901 : 



Seven meetings of Council hav^e been held during the 

 year, at which reports of the different Committees were 

 received, and all other business of the Society discussed 

 before being submitted to the regular monthly meetings 

 of the Society. 



The regular monthly meetings have been held as usual. 

 The following papers, arranged for by the Lecture Com- 

 mittee, were read at these meetings : 



October 29th, 1900.— " The Utica Formation Around 

 Ottawa," Dr. H. M. Ami. " Newly Eeported Plants of 

 the Island of Montreal," Kev. K. Campbell, D.D. 



November 2Gth, 1900.—" Life History of the Camber- 

 well Beauty Butterfly," A. E. Xorris. '■' Was Mount 

 Eoyal an Active Volcano ?" J. S. Buchan, Q.C. 



January 28th, 1901. — -"The Human Organisms," Dr. 

 F. Sclater Jackson. 



February 25th, 1901. — "The Extinct Volcanoes of 

 Central France," Prof. Frank D. Adams. 



March 2oth, 1901. — " Some Characteristic Land Forms 

 of Glacier Origin," Prof. 0. E. Leroy, B.A. " New 

 Zealand Ferns," Rev. R. Campbell, D.D. 



April 25th, 1901. — " Some of the Recent Methods for 

 the Investigation of the Nervous System, with their 

 Results," Prof. Wesley Mills, M.A., M.D. "A Visit to 

 New Zealand in 1885," Alexander Robertson, B.A. " Some 

 Montreal Mosses," Rev. R. Campbell, D.D. 



New members elected during the year : 1 life, 9 ordinary 

 and 2 associates. 



