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attending their schools. He hoped that by this time next year 

 the City Council would have adopted their suggestions, and taken 

 over the collections for the benefit of the public at large. They 

 proposed that the collections should remain in the Museum until 

 the Corporation had provided a home for them, and he believed 

 that in the old Town Hall they had a building which was 

 eminently well suited for this purpose. He thanked the Council 

 for incorporating in the report the paragraph referring to the 

 honour which was to be conferred upon him by the Royal 

 University. 



The President of Queen's College, in seconding the motion, 

 said the report seemed to him to be one of the most interesting 

 and important which had ever been presented at an annual 

 meeting. They learned from it something of the large amount of 

 useful work done during the winter months. They had had quite 

 a number of meetings, some of which had more than ordinary 

 interest for them. The remarkable lecture delivered by Dr. 

 Dallinger, for instance, would not soon be forgotten by those who 

 had the privilege of hearing it. It was an honour to the Society 

 to have had such a lecturer associated with it, and he had no 

 doubt that, as a result of Dr. Dallinger's visit, a great deal of 

 valuable information was diffused in reference to those too little 

 known and often misunderstood insects — wasps — of which he 

 treated. A great deal of the success of the Society during the 

 session undoubtedly arose from the fact that they had such an 

 energetic and self-sacrificing president. It was very lucky for 

 them that Sir Otto Jaffe had occupied the chair during the year 

 while they had been carrying on the negotiations with the Cor- 

 poration for the transfer of their collections. There was little new 

 to be said in regard to this transfer. The subject had already 

 been pretty well thrashed out, and for his part he had not altered 

 his opinion that it would be advantageous both to the city and to 

 the Society that their collections should be transferred to the 

 custody of the municipal authority. Alluding to the degree of 

 LL.D., honot is causa, which the Royal University was about to 

 confer upon Sir Otto Jaffe, he said he was sure they were all 



