TEREDO NAVALTS. 17 



C. Gordon Richardson, Esq., read a paper on " Maize and 

 its derivatives." 



EIGHTH MEETING. 



Eighth Meeting, 7th January, 1888, the President in the 

 chair. 



Donations and exchanges since last meeting, 133. 



The Council reported the election of Mr. P. Neilson Car- 

 michael, as an associate. 



A communication from the Audubon Monument Com- 

 mittee of the New York Academy of Sciences, requesting the 

 co-operation of the Institute in the erection of a monument 

 over the grave of Audubon in Trinity Church Cemetery, 

 New York, was on motion of Mr. Browning, seconded by Dr. 

 Ryerson, referred to the Biological section, recommending the 

 appointment of a committee to take up subscriptions. 



The President, Secretary, Curator, and the Chairmen and 

 Secretaries of Sections were named a committee to make 

 arrangements for the annual conversazione. 



Mr. Macclougall exhibited a section sawn from a fender pile that 

 was recently broken off from the Canadian Pacific railway dock at 

 Vancouver, B.C., by a slight strain from a hawser, it having been 

 weakened and rendered useless by the ravages of that destructive 

 mollusk the Teredo JVavalis. He also exhibited specimens of the 

 Tevfdo preserved in alcohol ; one whole one with the exception of the 

 tail, which had become detached, and the head and tail of another 

 one. The former was about nine inches long. They were sent by 

 Mr. J. F. Gai'den, late of Toronto, now of Yancouver, B.C., of the 

 firm of Garden & Herman, Civil Engineers. Accomjianying the 

 specimens were some remarks on the Teredo, by Mr. Garden. He 

 says : — This sea worm is certainly of great interest to Engineers on 

 this coast, as tljeir power of boring into and destroying wooden 

 structures submerged in sea water renders it a difficult problem how 

 to construct wharves and docks, even of a tem[)orary character, that 



