tA Ve Canadiun Record of Science. 
REPORT OF THE CoUNCIL, 1892-93. 
The Session of 1891-2, which closes with this meeting, has been 
an interesting and eventful one to the Society. Your Council has 
held seven meetings, and there have been six monthly meetings 
of the Society, at which interesting and instructive papers have 
been read. Eight new members were elected during the year. As 
stated in my last report, the Royal Society of Canada had received 
and accepted the invitation of this Society to hold its meeting in 
Montreal on the 27th of May, 1891, the first ever held outside of 
Ottawa. The members assembled in large numbers from all parts 
of Canada, and also from the United States... The different com- 
mittees appointed to carry out the programme for the meeting, and 
for the comfort and enjoyment of the members and invited guests, 
were eminently successful, and we desire to tender to them the 
thanks of the Society. We are likewise indebted to the Governors 
of McGill College for granting the use of the building for the meet- 
ings of the Royal Society. Your Society have to record the loss by 
death of Dr. T. Sterry Hunt, an eminent scientist and an original 
thinker, who held at one time the positions of President and Vice- 
President of the Society, and labored long and faithfully in its in- 
terests. His death is agreat loss to the scientific world, and also 
to the Natural History Society. We have also to mourn the loss 
by death of another earnest worker, Mr. F. B. Caulfield, who 
labored constantly to promote the interests of the Society. ~ It 
will be difficult to find one to replace him in his department of the 
Society’s work. 
There is every probability of the grant for the “ Record of 
Science” being continued by the present Government. Your 
Chairman has been in communication with the Treasurer of the 
Province for some time past. The building of.the Natural History 
Society is in good order, and the Hall has been leased for 1892-3 to 
the same occupants as before. I may mention here that the Hall 
will require to be reseated at an early date, and we commend this 
work to our successors in office. 
The Membership Committee has not met once this season, and, 
in consequence, the membership of the Society has fallen off this 
year very much. We recommend that this Committee should 
meet once a month and give their attention to new members, and 
prevent, if possible, the withdrawing of others from the Society. 
The Hon. Curator will report on the museum, which has been 
well patronized during the year. The library has received con- 
siderable attention and shows improvement. An effort is being 
made to render it more useful tothe members and students, as 
