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able to attend. It is necessary to remember that nine-tenths of the 
members live between Ottawa, Kingston and Quebec, and it is conse- 
quently possible to have a fair attendance at a relatively small cost in 
Ottawa, where there are twenty-five resident Fellows. If the meeting is 
called at Toronto, then the travelling expenses of the members of the 
Society between Ottawa and Halifax will be increased, and it is hardly 
possible to expect a large assemblage. In case, then, an invitation is 
extended to the Royal Society to visit Toronto, due consideration should 
be given to the important fact just stated. The Council may also call 
attention to the desirability of meeting some time in June, when the 
Universities are closed, in case it is determined to accept an invitation 
to the West. 
Aid to Members for Travelling Expenses. 
The Council have deemed it in the interests of the Society to 
appoint a Committee to consider the possibility of assisting members 
who live at a considerable distance from Ottawa, and in that way insure 
a larger attendance at our annual meetings than is practicable under 
existing conditions; and they have named as members of this Committee 
Sir S..Fleming, Dr. MacKay, Senator Poirier, Dr. Fréchette and Dr. 
Fletcher, who will report immediately to the present meeting. 
6. THE DEATH oF QUEEN VICTORIA AND THE ACCESSION OF 
Kine Epwarp VII. 
As soon as the sad news was known in Canada, that the great 
Queen who had reigned so long was dead, and that her eldest son had 
become the King, the President of the Royal Society, Dr. Louis 
Fréchette, immediately transmitted to His Excellency the Governor- 
General a telegram which expresses emphatically the sentiments that 
animate all the members of this body which had the honour of being 
founded by a Governor-General allied by marriage to the Royal Family. 
To His Excellency the Governor-General, Ottawa. 
“May it please Your Excellency: 
“ As President of the Royal Society of Canada T have the 
honour to request on their behalf that you will be pleased to transmit to 
His Majesty, King Edward VII., the deep expression of the sympathy 
which all of us feel at the sad announcement of-the death of Her late 
