408 The American Naturalist. 
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SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
The Royal Society of Canada announces its annual meeting in 
Montreal, May 27th, the session lasting one week. In the words of the 
preliminary circular, which has been mailed to us, it is anticipated 
that the meeting will be attended by many distinguished persons, emi- 
nent in literature and science, from Europe and the United States, as 
well as from the Dominion of Canada. The ordinary sessions of the 
society will be held in the buildings of the McGill University, and 
the popular evening lectures will be delivered in the Queen’s Hall on St. 
Catherine Street. The museums and art galleries, with the educational, 
industrial, and other institutions of the city will be opened to visiting 
members and associates. Local excursions to places of interest in the 
neighborhood will be arranged for, and receptions, garden parties, and 
entertainments of various kinds will also be provided. It is also pro- 
posed to keep a directory, wherein the names and addresses of all 
those attending the meeting will be registered, and thus members and 
associates will be enabled to communicate one with another without 
delay. The committee are engaged in the preparation of a hand-book, 
for gratuitous circulation among intending visitors, which will include 
an historical account of the society, together with other interesting 
scientific and local information, a copy of which will be sent on appli- 
cation. Sir Donald A. Smith is chairman, and J. A. Beaudry, CE, 
and W. J. Smyth, Ph.D., honorary local secretaries. All E 
interested in literature and science may become associates for aa 
meeting, and are cordially invited by the local committee to be 
present thereat. 
Joseph Leidy, M. D., Professor of Human Anatomy in the Ve 
versity of Pennsylvania, and president of the Academy of : eoo 
Sciences of Philadelphia, died April 30th. He was born in Eae < o 
phia, September gth, 182 3- His father, Philip Leidy, was 4 — eo 
Montgomery county, Pa., and his ancestors on both sides were GONT 
from the valley of the Rhine. a 
His taste for natural history was exhibited at a very early oo o 
received judicious encouragement from the master of the school = x 
he acquired the rudiments of an English education. At the a 
sixteen he left school with the intention of becoming an a 7 - oe 
father proposed. aes 
