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Pantins

Series consists of pantins, paper puppets which can be cut out from printed paper sheets and assembled. Includes nine sheets of pantins. Files are described individually.

Toy theatres

Series consists of toy theatres, often with accompanying playbooks, graphic materials, scenery, and characters, as well as toy theatre plays. Files are described individually.

Puppets and theatres

This series consists of a variety of puppets (string puppets, jumping jacks, rod puppets, glove puppets, etc.) and shadow puppets representing many different countries and puppet-making techniques and traditions. It also contains some accompanying materials, including a puppet theatre and accessories for shadow puppet plays.

Books

This portion of the collection contains 2714 books and periodicals from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries on the puppet theatre in various European languages as well as scripts for puppet plays.

Weather maps

The series consists of 20 maps produced by Meteorological Service, Dominion of Canada, showing only southern Canada. Each map depicts the average temperatures and precipitation for the month across the country. For the year 1886, there are several duplicates of some months. The years of 1895 and 1897 are incomplete.

Reports

The reports series has a plethora of information about the functioning of the Society. Three files (10.1, 10.2, 10.3) contain the published and printed reports of the Society covering yearly highlights of activity. They cover the years 1828, 1830-1836, 1854-57, 1859, 1864-1871, 1873-1874, 1877-1878, 1881. Also included for each year are reports from the Treasurer, Librarian and Cabinet Keeper. The reports were signed off by the Chairman or President of that year.

In addition, included in this series is a ledger with Reports from the Indian Committee (file 13.3), with a handwritten report for the end of the year and survey forms. The committee members were W. M. McKay ( President of Committee), George Simpson, D. C. Napier, John Samuel McCord, A. F. Holmes, William Pardey, Robert Armour (Secretary).

Montreal Microscopical Society

The series consists of administrative documents such as notes and proposals on membership, correspondence, invoices, programs of the Society (1896-1897), pages from the Microscopical Journal (1890), newspaper clippings on varying topics and a notebook of the Field Day Committee (1887).

This series also contains a published copy of R. Lachlan’s A Retrospective Glance at the Progressive State of the Natural History Society of Montreal (see Essays and Lectures Series). In addition, the series contains a few materials produced by the Natural History Society after 1902 such as invitation cards to meetings.

Minutes

The minutes series comprises eight bound volumes, two publications and one envelope of loose duplicate minutes. The minutes document proceedings from the annual, general, monthly, special, ordinary and extraordinary meetings held by the Society. It consists of the minutes from the Natural History Society (1827-1923), the Natural History Society Council (1827-1922), and the Natural History Society Committees (1906-1908).

The handwritten and typed minutes document the Society’s activities, including lists of members, newspaper articles, donations to the Society, elections, advertisements for sponsored lectures, and reports from committees. Handwritten copies of letters from Dr. Meade, Mr. C.U. Shepard, Major Delafield (File 5.2) and Robert Burn (File 9.1) to the Society as well as letters sent on behalf of the Society (Smithsonian Institute, File 5.1) are included with the minutes.

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