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Corresponding Secretary — George E. ISTicliols. 



Eecording Secretary — W. L. Payzant. 



Treasiirer — E. J. Wilson. 



Council — Eev. Dr. Saunders, Prof. A. MacMechan, J. J. Stewart 

 and Archibald Frame. 



Library Commissioners — ]\Ir. Justice Townshend, Dr. A. H. Mac- 

 Kay, President Forrest and J. J. Stewart. 



At the annual meeting Hon. J. W. Longley resigned the office of 

 president, which he held for a number of years, and F. Blake Crofton 

 resigned the office of corresponding secretar}'', which he had held for 

 man}' years. 



Y III. — From Tlie Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Montreal, 

 through W. D, Lighthall. 



The ISTumismatic and Antiquarian Society has the honour of sub- 

 mitting the following report. Owing to the interruption of its meet- 

 ings by necessary repairs and renewals, not much original work has been 

 done during the past year. The original papers read were only three, 

 as follows : — 



1. '■ liist of Canadian Coins and Medals issued during the year 

 1904," illustrated by specimens from his collection, by E. W. McLachlan. 



2. " The Probable Date of the Arrival in Egypt of the celebrated 

 Statue of Sarapis, the work of Bryasis," by G. Dattari, of Cairo, Egypt. 



3. " Pattern Pieces Struck at the Eoyal Mint for Canada," by E. 

 "W. McLachlan. 



During the year ten new members have been added. The Chateau, 

 now fully two hundred years old, has been renovated and vastly im- 

 proved in its interior appearance within the past few months, so as to 

 present a highly attractive and beautiful appearance. 



Although no large contributions have been added to the Societ3''s 

 collection, it continues to steadily increase. These additions have been 

 to the museum 22 coins and medals and 24 antiquities. To the 

 national gallery, 32 portraits of Canadians in oil, engraved axid photo- 

 graphed; 175 foreign portraits, engraved; 54 historic Canadian and 43 

 foreign views. To the library, 1,800 books, pamphle.ts and periodicals, 

 of which over 500 are Canadian. Among the most notable of these 

 acquisitions are a pair of portraits, panels in oil, of Mr. and Mrs. 

 "\\'alker, who were celebrated for sympathizing with the ca.use of the 

 continental army when it arrived in Montreal, and for having enter- 

 tained Benjamin Franklin when he came to l\rontreal in 1776. "Walker 

 was afterwards assailed by masked men, said to bo British officers, in 



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