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premiere el la raison e'e'tre absolu de toute existence, en 

 qui se resumerait la diversity dans l/unite\ eternel probleme 

 que le science nc saurail resoudre, mais qui se pose de 

 lui-meme devant la conscience humaine. La serail la 

 vraie source de l'id^al religieux; de cette pens^e se de^a- 

 gerait d'une facon iunrineuse, cette conception de notre 

 ame a laquelle nous appliquons instinctivemenl le nom 

 de Dieu. 



Saporta was correspondent de l'lnstitut de France, a 

 Foreign Member of the Geological society of London, an 

 Associate Fellow of the American Academy of Sciences, 

 and an Honorary or Corresponding Member of many other 

 societies on both sides of the Atlantic. 



J. W. Dawson 



Annual Presidential Address. 

 Natural History Society of Montreal. 



By Prof. Wesley Mills, M.A., M.D., Etc. 



When, owing to your kindness and continued confidence, 

 you placed me in office for a second term, with all the 

 duties and responsibilities which are associated with this 

 honorable position, I trust you did not expect another 

 presidential address from me on resigning as I now do 

 in favor of some other member who may be thought 

 worthy to occupy this place of greatest responsibility, if 

 not of highest honor in the Society. It is not my. inten- 

 tion to do more than make a few remarks on this occasion, 

 and after merely referring to the salient features of the 

 Society's work this year, I shall confine what I have to 

 Bay pretty much to one thought: The spirit of the 

 naturalist 



You will rather from the various reports presented this 

 evening the state of our affairs, and the lines along which 



progress, obvious t<» everyone, has been made, such as the 



