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ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
value to a community, while its published statistics may show a ‘home use’ 
of more than 80 per cent fiction. 
Another library of 75,000 volumes in a 
Similar city may not be doing any better work, yet its home circulation may 
be but 60 per cent fiction or less. 
“Figures are often more than misleading, but in nothing else so much 
as in so-called library statistics.” 
PURD B. WRIGHT, 
Librarian Free Public Library. 
St. Joseph, Mo. 
April 2nd, 1901. 
8. ASSOCIATED SOCIETIES. 
The customary invitations to attend the present meeting, 
and report 
on the scientific and literary work of the year, were sent to the follow- 
ing Canadian societies who have heretofore co-operated with the Royal 







Society : 
SOCIETY PLACE DELEGATE 
Natural History Soctety.2. 2-4-2 Montreal Free" Rev. Robert Camp- 
bell, M.A., D.D. 
Numismatic and Antiquarian Society... do. bépisios ae blosiclicice nee tee ree 
IMicroscopicalSocietymmsee ss ten see eee DO ects Ane sed sot PRE ou 
SOCIéLÉ RES TOMOUE er PP ET PRE Re Dre o 0 0 € 0 € 
Cercle Littéraire de Montréal. ....... AO EN eee Prof. J. L. Morin 
Literary and Historical Society.......... Quebec aise RCIP RSR 
GeOLTAPhICAISOCIELY- AE EEE eee eee (6.0 EEE acts A Re Do à 
InMSbICULICANATEN EEE EEE TE CEE TETE GOs astres H. Chassé. 
Literary and Scientific Society........... OA A AE Chas. Morse, D.C.L. 
HieldeNatUuTalSES ACIDE NE TOME SARA W. J. Wilson. 
Hamilton ASseciabiony PAR ect HamilLOnN ERP rer Dr. Fletcher. 
Entomological Society of Ontario........ Mondonterayeer ee Dr. C. J. Bethune. 
CanadianimsLituLe MERE TOYONbO. 32/56 2. oot Callen EC ee ee eC Eee 
Natural History Society of St. John, N.B.} St. John............ Prof. Bailey. 
N.S. Institute of Natural Science....... ale asile H. S. Poole. 
Historical Society of Nova Scotia........| do  ............ Dr. MacKay. 
Natural History Society of B.C.......... Victoria, BC: cheese eee 
Wentworth Historical Society.......... Hamilton, Ont...... Mrs. Geo. E. Foster. 
Elgin Historical and Srientifis Seley. St. Thomas, Ont....| Dr. S. E. Dawson. 
Historical Society of Manitoba ..... Winnipeg... 2122 ie Sllnces cease wee eee 
Botanical Club of Canada.. pee bbe Lis he, Halifax, N.S.. .....| Dr, MacKay 
American Folk Lore Society Shield Montreal: IEEE ER ee eee 
Historical Society............. Fay Ne ER Kingston Lies 2 I MERE 
Toronto Astronomical Society........... HOrontO re ee eee Archibald Blue. 
Lundv’s Lane Historical Society......... Niagara Balls: 2212200022 00e cee 
New Brunswick Historical Society .... | St. John............ Dr. Bailey. 
Historical Society of Ontario............. MOrOntO eee eee Judge Ardagh. 
Women’s Historical Society of Toronto.. AO! se roue remain ones ee renner 
Niagara Historical Society............... Niagara. -toete Miss Janet Car- 
nochan. 
United Empire Loyalists’ Association of 
Ontario RME cate anor Toronto. 2.0 lee nee ES 
Women’s Wentworth Historical Society.| Hamilton .......... Mrs. G. E. Foster. 
Natural History Association... .......... Miramichis tele, e scene 
Peterborough Historical Society......... PeterbOrougR EPP) ER ERP ERP 
Canadian Forestry Association....... Ottawa Rey, Ae CL RER RARES 
Women’s Canadian Historical Society. . GO. weeds Rome csc veto eens 
Hamilton Ladies’ College Alumnæ Asso- 
Ciation ys 55) Wate teas «cease eee Hamitony cece Mrs. G. F. Glassco. 
Natural History and Antiquarian Society 
Of PE ISIAnA. eee Charlottetown... tee. rc 


