IN ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
studies, and may have an opportunity of visiting Berlin during the 
coming summer :— 
All letters and applications for tickets should be addressed to:— 
Praesidium des V. Internationalen Zoologen-Congresses, 43 Invaliden- 
strasse, Berlin N. 4. 
Remittances should be addressed to:—Herren Robert Warschauer 
& Co., 48 Behrenstrasse, Berlin, W. 64. 
K. Mobius (Berlin), president of the Congress; F. E. Schulze 
(Berlin), substitute of the president; R. Blanchard (Paris), le secrétaire 
général du Comité permanent des Congrès Internationaux de Zoologie; 
P. Matschie, M. Meissner, R. Hartmeyer, secretaries of the Executive 
Committee; H. Schalow, O. Stutzbach, treasurers of the Executive Com- 
mittee; L. H. Plate, officer of the Lecture Committee; L. Heck, officer 
of the Reception Committee; O. Jäkel, officer of the Arrangement 
Committee. 
11. INFORMATION FOR CONTRIBUTORS TO THE TRANSACTIONS. 
As some misapprehension appears still to exist among workers in 
science and literature, who are not members of the Society, the Council 
think it advisable once more to call attention to the regulations which 
expressly provide that “Communications by persons not members of the 
Society may be submitted by members on the same conditions as their 
own productions.” A reference to the Transactions for many years past 
will show that valuable papers on different subjects by such persons 
have appeared from time to time, and the Council desires to make this 
fact as widely known as possible. The Royal Society was founded for 
the purpose of bringing together all the leading workers in literature 
and science throughout the Dominion, and has accordingly on two occa- 
sions enlarged its membership so as to increase its usefulness. It has as- 
sociated with its work, all societies which have the same objects in view, 
and endeavoured as far as practicable to become a federation of learning 
with which all provincial bodies can co-operate for the promotion of 
the intellectual of this young nation. | 
12. THE PUBLICATION oF HisroricAL MEmorrs oR DIARIES. 
The sixth volume of the Transactions contains an interesting diary 
of a voyage made in 1821 through Canada to the present site of Winni- 
peg, and thence to Hudson’s Bay, by Nicholas Garry, a director of the 
great fur company, who gave his name to the famous fort which was 
