Excerpt from The Canadian Naturalist and Quarterly Journal of Science, 1875, Vol. 7 As the Society has done me the honor to elect me twice in succession to the office of President, and as my address of last year was occupied almost entirely awith local details I may be permitted on the present occasion to direct your attention in the first place to some general topics of scientific interest, and merely to notice our own more special work in the end of this address. From the many subjects to which your attention and that of kindred Societies has been called in the past year, I may select the following as deserving our attention The present aspect of inquiries as to the introduction of genera and species in geo logical time. (2) The growth of our knowledge of the Primor dial and Laurentian rocks and their fossils. (3) The questions relating to the so-called Glacial Period. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.