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of the Geological Survey,) it was voted by the council that it be 

 part of ray duty to distribute the duplicate specimens in this 

 series, with a view partly of rendering the cases containing them, 

 available for other purposes. I have therefore selected, labelled, 

 and packed up five sets which have been sent (at the expense cf the 

 Geol. Survey) to the following Institutions : 



University College, Toronto. 



Queen's College, Kingston. 



McGill College, Montreal. 



Museum of the Literary and Historical Society, . . .Quebec. 

 Laval University Quebec. 



Letters acknowledging the receipt of these, and containing 

 votes of thanks, have been duly received. The remainder of the 

 duplicates, belonging to the Geol. Survey, have been put away. 



The Society's collection of shells and bryozoa has been 

 thoroughly arranged and named. On the left hand side of the 

 gallery all the North American species have been grouped in twelve 

 cases. The general collection occupies the whole of the right 

 hand side of the gallery, -and one large case at the end of the 

 gallery has been devoted to such large shells as could not con- 

 veniently be classified in the side cases. 



The Society's collections of foreign shells now fill fourteen cases. 

 Printed labels have been procured, explanatory of the contents of 

 each case. 



The corals, sponges, crustaceans, and in fact all the inverte- 

 brata except the insects, have been classified and arranged in one 

 large case at the south end of the gallery. The specimens are 

 partly named, but the labelling of the specimens in this case is not 

 quite finished. I have endeavoured to procure from friends such 

 specimens as were wanting to complete the above mentioned 

 aeries, with what success the printed lists of donations to the 

 museum will show. 



In the lower room the whole of the Society's collection of birds 

 has been re-arranged, and large printed labels have been affixed to 

 each case descriptive of its contents. This collection has been 

 carefully gone over, and all those species that were previously un- 

 named, have been properly labelled. 



The foreign birds have been partly named. I have written to 

 England for printed labels to affix to each species in our collec- 

 tion of British birds and their eggs. The birds' eggs belonging to 

 the Society have been thoroughly arranged and named, and, in 



