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Report of the Natural History Society of Montreal, 



FOR 1895, TO THE PtOYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA. 



The Natural History Society of Montreal lias, this year 

 again, availed itself of the privilege of sending a delegate 

 to represent it at the annual meeting of the Royal Society 

 of Canada, 



The work of the Society has been carried on during the 

 present year in an efficient manner, and it is a cause of 

 satisfaction to be able to state that there has been an 

 increased attendance at the monthly and other meetings 

 of the Society, showing that the members appreciate the 

 importance of its work. 



The Museum is now being thoroughly overhauled and 

 all the specimens are being renamed. During the present 

 year a larger number than usual of donations from friends 

 of the Society have been made, including one from the 

 Council of Arts, through the Secretary, Mr. S. C. Steven- 

 son, showing that the public as well as the members have an 

 interest in the work of the Society. It is also pleasing to 

 note that the attendance, during the present year, of out- 

 siders at the Museum on Saturdays, on which days the 

 Museum is free to the public, has been nearly double that 

 of previous years. 



The Society is fully impressed with the desirability of con- 

 tinuing the publication of the Canadian Record of Science, 

 and has made arrangements to do so. It has appropriated 

 from its funds an annual sum of $200, and it hopes in the 

 future, as it has done this year, to replace the annual 

 grant of $400, which the Government has discontinued, 

 by the subscriptions of the generous patrons of science to 

 be found in Montreal. It may be mentioned that the 

 circulation of the Record has increased, and that in view 

 of this fact and of the value of the work, the Society is 

 firmly determined, even at the cost of a heavy inroad on 

 its finances, to continue its quarterly publication. 



