Legislature in discontinuing the small grant to the Society. He claimed also for the Natural History Society that it had procured the Geological Survey, the benefits of which had been so strikingly set forth by Prof. Hall. He alluded to his long intercourse with Sir William Logan, as school-mates, as college-companions, and in after life, and passed a eulogy on the services rendered to science by that distinguished geologist, and then, after some further remarks, resumed his seat amidst warm applause.

The PRESIDENT said that, before the proceedings closed, he had one or two other remarks to offer. In reference to the Legislative grant, he had just received a note from the Corresponding Secretary, who said :—"The Legislature has not withdrawn its grant, but has neglected to send it." Perhaps there was a difference there by which the Society might hereafter profit. He had further to state that on Tuesday, the 1st of March, they would commence a course of lectures, to be continued weekly from that day, free to the public. The regular meetings of the Society for business purposes and scientific discussions were held monthly on the last Monday of every month. He hoped the number of members would now be increased, that the efficiency of the Society might be augmented. Already, however, they had in it no small amount of working scientific power. He need only mention such names as Logan and Billings in Geology; Smallwood and Hall in Meteorology; Holmes, Barnston and Kemp in Canadian Botany; D'Urban and Hingston in Zoology; Murphy and King in Microscopy; who were prepared to bring to their meetings every month something they had been doing, great or small, in the various departments of Natural History.

The proceedings then terminated shortly after eleven o'clock.

The Toronto Microscopical Society.

On the 1st of February, 1859, the lovers of Microscopical science in Toronto held a meeting for the purpose of forming a society. At a subsequent meeting the constitution was adopted, and office-bearers elected for the current year.

The following resolution was carried :—

Moved by Wm. Couper, seconded by John McRoberts,-"That a copy of the constitution now adopted, together with a list of the office-bearers of the Society, be forwarded to the Canadian Naturalist for publication."

President,-PATRICK FREELAND, Esq.
Vice-President,-THOMAS GARbutt.

Recording Secretary,-JOSEPH DAVIDS.

Cerresponding Secretary and Curator,-WILLIAM COUPER.
Treasurer,-JOHN MCROBERTS.

Constitution of the Toronto Microscopical Society.

ARTICLE I.

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This Society shall be known as the Toronto Microscopical Society.

ARTICLE II.

Its objects shall be to promote microscopical research, and to collect and diffuse microscopical knowledge and information. ARTICLE III.

SEC. 1. Any person desirous of forwarding the objects of the Society may be admitted a member thereof, by paying the sum of two dollars annually to its funds, and being elected a member according to Article IV. of the Constitution.

SEC. 2. Members shall be divided into four classes, viz: Ordinary Members, Life Members, Corresponding Members and Honorary Members.

SEC. 3. Ordinary Members shall be those who contribute the sum of two dollars annually to the funds of the society.

SEC. 4. Life Members shall consist of Ordinary Members, duly elected, who shall pay to the funds of the society the sum of thirty dollars, or who shall give to the society books, instruments, or microscopical specimens of the value of thirty dollars or upwards. Or of persons who may be elected Life Members by the society at any meeting thereof, for important services rendered to the society.

SEC. 5. Corresponding Members shall be persons residing out of the City of Toronto, engaged in microscopical pursuits, who may be desirous of forwarding the objects of the society, and who shall contribute the sum of one dollar annually to its funds.

SEC. 6. Honorary Members shall be persons eminent for their high standing and attainments in microscopical science, and the number of Honorary Members shall be limited to ten.

ARTICLE IV.

SEC. 1. Any person desirous of becoming an Ordinary or Corresponding Member of the Society, shall signify in writing to the Recording Secretary, such his desire, and deposit with him, at the same time, the amount of one year's subscription.

SEC. 2. He must be proposed as a candidate for admission at a general meeting of the Society, and ballotted for at the next ensuing general meeting, and the proposition of votes requisite for the election of any member shall be three-fourths of the ballot.

SEC. 3. Honorary Members must be recommended for election as such by at least three meinbers, and such recommendation shall be submitted to the council for enquiry, and upon their approval of the recommendation, the person or persons proposed shall be nominated at one general meeting, and be balloted for at the next meeting in the same manner.

ARTICLE V.

SEC. 1. Any member whose annual subscriptions shall remain unpaid for the space of one month after the same shall become due, shall forfeit his claim to all privileges of the Society, and shall not be reinstated therein until he shall have paid all arrears.

SEC. 2. Members leaving the city, may, upon giving notice of their removal to the Recording Secretary, retain their connection with the Society, by paying the subscription of Corresponding Members.

SEC. 3. Members may be expelled from the Society upon the recommendation of the council, and by the vote of three-fourths of the members present at any general meeting.

ARTICLE VI.

The officers of the Society shall consist of a President, VicePresident, Treasurer, Recording-Secretary, Corresponding-Secretary, and Curator, who shall also act as Librarian.

ARTICLE VII.

SEC. 1. The ordinary affairs and business of the Society shall be arranged by the council thereof, which shall consist of the officers and four other Ordinary or Life Members, any three of whom shall form a quorum.

SEC. 2. The officers and other members of the council shall be elected by ballot at the annual meeting of the Society in January each year, from nominations made viva voce at such annual meeting; and they shall hold office until the general meeting next succeeding the appointment of their successors.

ARTICLE VIII.

SEC. 1. The general meetings of the Society shall be held on the first Tuesday in every month, except the month of January. Five members shall be necessary to constitute a quorum at any general or special meeting.

SEC. 2. At the meeting in January, which shall he held on the second Tuesday thereof, and shall also be called the Annual Meeting, the report of the council for the past year shall be presented, and officers and members of council for the ensuing year shall be elected.

SEC. 3. Special General Meetings of the Society may at any time be called by the Council, or Recording Secretary upon the written requisition of five members, of which meetings six days notice shall be given, and the special business to be considered at such special general meeting shall be specified in the notices calling the same, and no business other than what is so specified in the notices shall be taken up or discussed at such special meeting.

ARTICLE IX.

This constitution or any article thereof may be altered or amended at a general meeting of the Society. But it shall be necessary in every case that notice of the proposed alteration or amendment shall be given at the consecutive ordinary meetings prior to the meeting at which it shall be considered and voted upon.

Note on Mollusks and Radiites from Labrador.

Believing that one useful function of the "Naturalist" is the publication of local lists of species, we insert the following catalogue of specimens, collected on the coast of Labrador by Mr. C. C. Carpenter, a missionary sent to that region under the auspices of a Society in Montreal. They were obtained principally at Esquimaux Bay and other places in the vicinity of the Straits of Belleisle :

Buccinum undatum-largest specimen 3 inches in length. Trophon (Fusus) Scalariforme, a specimen an inch and three lines in length.

Rostellaria occidentalis—of rather large size.

Littorina rudis.

L. littorea (palliata).

Margarita helecina (Arctica).

Lottia (Tectura) testudinalis—some specimens more than an inch in diameter.

Saxicava rugosa-in Nullipores, which seem to be very large and abundant.

Mya arenaria-of very small size.

Solen ensis-large specimens.

Tellina Grænlandica-abundant, and sometimes highly colored. Mytilus edulis-Some of the specimens approach very nearly in their ovate forms and strong growth lines to those found in the tertiary clays.

Pecten Magellanicus.

Echinus granulatus-common, and of ordinary size.

Echinarachinus Atlanticus.

Uraster (Asteracanthion) rubens-one specimen eight inches in diameter.

Uraster a species of which I have no description. The rays are 2 times the breadth of the disk, less flattened, and with a narrower ambulacral groove than in U. rubens. The ambulacral spines are short and cylindrical; the upper part is nearly uniformly and very thickly covered with groups of clubshaped spines, nearly flat at their extremities. The madreporic plate is coarsely marked; the terminal plates of the rays are distinct and nearly annular. Is this the species described by Desor, in Proc. of Bost. Nat. Hist. Soc., as Asteracanthion Forbesi. All Mr. Carpenter's specimens have six rays.

Halichondria-Three species, all apparently identical with species found in other parts of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Mr. Carpenter's collection also contains Platycarcinus irroratus Balanus crenatus, and B. balanoides (ovularis).

REVIEW.

The Master-Builder's Plan; or, the Principles of Organic Architecture as indicated in the typical forms of Animals. By GEORGE OGILVIE, M.D., Aberdeen. London: Longman & Co. Montreal: B. Dawson & Son. Pp. 196.

The study of Zoology in these days requires something more than merely to become acquainted with the names, appearances habits and history of a certain number of animals with their economic uses, and the interesting anecdotes, fabulous or true, which have been related by travellers and lovers of the curious regarding them. It is a serious matter of research to compass the field which this wide and important department of science embraces. A terminology must be mistered as difficult as that which pertains to Chemistry, the most technical of sciences. Anatomy and physiology, with their curious structures and the difficult problems pertaining to their final causes must be encountered; and the department of Homology, which has risen in modern times to vital importance, must be investigated. Comparative anatomy has expanded itself into this latter phase, and aims at obtaining for itself a distinct and generic place in Zoology. Vast as this field may appear it is nevertheless included in the proper and systematic study of animal life. Difficult and profound as many of the questions which it starts may be they are yet perhaps the most interesting, if not fascinating, of any that can engage the human mind. They bring us into contact with mysterious life whose source and destinies lead us to the throne of the Eternal