II ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
The following Fellows were duly introduced and took their seats: 
Mr. Henry 8. Poole and Professor Rutherford. 
The Honorary Secretary then read the following 
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL FOR 1901. 
The Council of the Royal Society of Canada have the honour to 
present their nineteenth report as follows :— 
1. PRINTING oF TRANSACTIONS. 
The sixth volume of the new octavo series is now bound, and in 
course of distribution. It would have been ready for circulation by the 
middle of March, had not a serious fire broken out in Montreal in the 
month of January and destroyed a large quantity of the sheets then in 
the bindery on St. Paul Street. Happily the insurance, which had been 
wisely increased some months previously to meet just such an exigency, 
fully met the loss and enabled the printers to re-print the sheets with 
such great promptitude, that the book, although large, has appeared 
much earlier than in any preceding year since the publication of the 
Transactions. In addition to a hundred and sixty-four pages of pro- 
ceedings it contains papers in the four sections comprising seven hundred 
and seventy-two pages, and consequently nine hundred and thirty-four 
pages from the title page to the end of the volume. Authors have 
received with the usual liberality of the Society, about four thousand 
copies altogether. The volume contains seventy-four maps, portraits, 
diagrams and other illustrations which add greatly to its value and 
interest. The seal of the Society for the first time appears before the 
title page in accordance with the order of the last meeting. The editor 
has also revised the rules to date, and given them in full at the begin- 
ning of the volume. Im order to ensure a speedy transmission of the 
proceedings to all Fellows as soon as possible after the last annual 
meeting, the editor immediately printed the report and such other 
matters of business which interest directly the Society. The editor 
felt that the old practice of publishing the reports of associated Societies 
simultaneously with the proceedings of the Royal Society had the incon- 
venience of delaying the printing of those matters which should be laid 
without delay before all members. The same course will be followed 
in the future. 
The illustrations of the present volume have been, as in previous 
years, supervised by the King’s Printer, fortunately for the Society, 
one of our Fellows, and the printing accounts have also been carefully 
