Notes on the Albany Meeting. 477 



syenite." This paper led to considerable discussion, in 

 which some of the petrographical geologists present enun- 

 ciated the general principle that in the great Archaean 

 complex many of the limestones and gneissic bands may 

 be altered sedimentaries. (8) Prof. S. L. Penfield's paper, 

 " Stereoscopic Projection in Map Construction " was a most 

 important contribution both for geographers, mineralogists 

 and petrographers. 



H. M. Ami. 

 Ottawa, January, 1901. 



Proceedings of Natural History Society. 



ANJfUAL MEETING. 



The ISTatural History Society made a new departure 

 this year in inaugurating its season's monthly meet- 

 ings. It held a conversazione on the evening of 

 Monday, October 28th, 1901, which proved a pleasant 

 and successful function. The meeting took this form 

 especially in honour of Lore? Strathcona and Mount 

 Royal, and at the same time afforded the members of 

 the society an opportunity of meeting him for the first 

 time since he was elected Honorary President, in suc- 

 cession to the late Sir William Daw^son, and was 

 elevated to the peerage. 



The guests were received by the president and 



Council of tlie Society. The hall and library were 



tastefully decorated, and the museum was lighted up 



with electricity, exhibiting its valuable and varied 



contents to advantage. The Microscopical and Ento- 

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