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Pacific Railway. We hope the members and their friends 
will avail themselves of this opportunity of enjoying a 
pleasant day ina lovely section of the country, amongst 
the Laurentides. 
The whole respectfully submitted. 
JouNn S. SHEARER, 
Chairman. 
REPORT OF THE EDITING COMMITTEE OF THE 
RECORD OF SCIENCE. 
Owing to the absence of Dr. Adams from the country 
during the early part of the year, and the multiplicity of 
his engagements since his return by reason of the illness of 
Sir William Dawson, the duty of overseeing the four issues 
of the Recorp or Science for the past year fell upon me. 
These numbers averaged fifty-nine pages each, and em- 
braced considerable variety of matter, much of it of a high 
standard. ‘To the contributors of papers the committee ex- 
press their thanks, only regretting that the amount of 
money at their disposal did not enable them to provide such 
illustrations as were sometimes required to set forth fully 
the value of the articles. But even with its defects the 
Recorp or ScrencE seems to be appreciated by scientific 
students in all parts of the world, as is seen by the large 
and increasing list of exchanges obtained for it. 
The question has now to be met whether the REcorD oF 
SCIENCE is to be continued, in view of the threatened with- 
drawal of the small grant made to the Society, for the pur- 
poses of the publication, by the Provincial Government, for 
some years past. It would be a serious loss to the science 
of the Dominion, should it be necessary for lack of funds to 
cease the publication. Besides it would be injurious to the 
Society itself in more ways than one. At once most of the 
additions to the library, and those the most valuable, which 
come to us as books to be reviewed er as exchanges would 
be cut off, and the Natural History Society would lose much 
of the prestige abroad which it has won through this chan- 
