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ed by Professor Williamson, and, having been put to the meeting, was unanimously 
agreed to. 
The Rev. Professor Mowat read to the Meeting a draft of Laws which the pro- 
moters of the Society had framed for the consideration of the meeting, whereupon 
the chairman called for any additional suggestions. 
Dr. Dupuis moved that the draft submitted by Professor Mowat be approved 
of and adopted as the Laws of the Botanical Society. The motion was seconded by 
Dr. H. Yates and unanimously agreed to. 
Professor Lawson, seconded by Professor Williamson, moved the appointment 
of a Committee to suggest Office Bearers for election at next meeting, which was 
agreed to. ^lembers of Committee : Principal Leitch, Professors Mowat, William- 
son, Stewart and Lawson, — Prof. Lawson, Convener. 
Professor Yates, seconded by Mr. Darrach, moved ^he appointment of a Com- 
mittee to prepare Rules for regulating the exchange of specimens among the mem- 
bers, distribution of seeds, &c., which was adopted. Members of Committee:: 
Principal Leitch, Professors Yates, Williamson and Lawson, Mr. Duff, — Professor 
Yates, Convener. 
Professor Williamson moved the appointment of a Committee to consider the 
propriety of printing a Catalogue of Canadian Plants, and to suggest a plan for the 
same, the object of the catalogue being to ■facilitate the exchange of specimens, and 
obtain the returns of local floras. Professor Williamson pointed out the great dis- 
advantages under which students and collectors labor at the present time, there 
being no convenient modern list of Canadian plants; and he drew attention to the 
uses to which such a list might be applied. lie concluded by alluding to the vari- 
ous works that might be used for determining species, the most convenient of which 
is Gray's Manual of the Botany of the Northern States, which, -of course, does not 
cite stations in Canada for the various plants. Professor Williamson's motion was 
seconded by Mr. O'Reilly, and agreed to. Members of Committee: Professors 
W^illiamson, Weir, Lawson, and Dr. Dupuis, — Professor Williamson, Convener. 
The Rev, Professor Weir, after a few remarks on the importance of such a So- 
ciety, and the cheering manner in which the proposal to establish it had been re- 
ceived by so large a meeting, moved the appointment of a Committee to nominate 
foreign botanists and others suitable for election as honorary and corresponding 
members, in terms of the Laws ; the Committee's Report to be given in against next 
meeting of the Society. The motion was seconded by Professor Williamson, and 
agreed to. Members of Committee : Professors Weir, Williamson, Mowat and Law- 
son, — Prof. Weir, Convener. 
All business of detail which it was proposed to take up at this meeting being 
concluded, the Chairman called upon those gentlemen who were desirous of becom- 
ing members of the Society to give formal expression to their adherence by signing 
