﻿318 Canadian Record of Science. 



Report of Chairman of Council of the Natural 

 History Society of Montreal, for the Year 

 ENDING 27th May, 1896. 



The Chairman of Council begs to report that the work 

 of the Council has been regularly carried on during the 

 past year. Nine meetings of Council have been held and 

 eight meetings of the Society, all of which have been well 

 attended, and showing increased interest in the work 

 of the Society. 



The Annual Field Day Excursion took place on the first 

 Saturday in June of 1896, going to Ste. Jovite and proving 

 a very attractive outing. 



The Canadian Eecord of Science continues to be 

 issued, due to the liberality of some of our members, as we 

 are still without the Government grant for this purpose. 



The Somerville Course of Lectures for the session 1897 

 proved a very enjoyable one, and was largely attended. 

 The eight lectures were as follows, an extra being given by 

 Dr. H. M. Ami on " Extinct Monsters" after the close of 

 the regular Course : — 



Thursday, Jan. 14th. — "Food and Digestion: What we 

 Eat and what Becomes of it," by W. S. Morrow, M.D. 



Thursday, Jan. 21st. — "The Blood and its Circulation 

 and Distribution in the Body," by John W. Scane, M.D. 



Thursday, Jan. 28th. — " Eespiration : What, Why and 

 How we Breathe," by A. Bruere, M.D. 



Thursday, Feb. 4th. — " Waste and Ptepair : The Body as 

 a Factory," by G. Gordon Campbell, M.D. 



Thursday, Feb. 11th.— "The Nervous System: The 

 Mechanism that Governs the Body and how it does it," by 

 Neil D. Gunn, M.D. 



Thursday, Feb. 18th. — "The Senses: How and what 

 we Learn of the World about us," by A. Proudfoot, M.D. 



Thursday, Feb. 25th. — "Voice and Speech: How we 

 Sing and Speak," by H. S. Birkett, M.D. 



