REPORTS OF ASSOCIATED SOCIETIES. 
I.—From The Literary and Historical Society of Quebec, through P. B. 
CASGRAIN, Esq. 
The Society took a leading part in the action of the citizens of 
Quebec who wished to see the negotiations for the purchase of the 
Plains of Abraham by the Federal Government from the Reverend 
Ladies of the Ursulines, brought to an immediate and successful ter- 
mination—in view of the fact that the Government's lease of these 
grounds will cease next year; and it was quite possible that the Plains 
might be lost to Quebec, to the Dominion and to the Empire at large 
for ever. The various ins and outs of the public action taken are 
matters of public knowledge; it only concerns us, therefore, to say, 
that the Society was represented in the strong deputation which waited 
on Sir Wilfrid Laurier in Ottawa on Tuesday, the wth of May, inst., 
by the President and Mr. Casgrain. 
Our long series of Transactions have been disseminated in every 
quarter of the globe, during nearly the whole of the Nineteenth 
Century; and, in the present season, we are giving to the public our 
seventy-second annual course of free lectures. There are over twenty 
volumes in the New Series of Transactions alone, over one hundred 
separate monographs have appeared in the Society’s publications, and 
the total number of papers read and addresses given is now approaching 
five hundred. 
The last volume of Transactions, published in June, 1900, con- 
tained an elaborate study of the two great battles fought before Quebec 
in 1759 and 1760. The first study is mainly topographical, and is 
well illustrated. The second is also very valuable, particularly 
because the battle of St. Foye or Sillery, is so little known in comparison 
with the more dramatic action in which both Wolfe and Montcalm 
fell, and Quebec was taken. 
This volume was entirely the work of Mr. P. B. Casgrain, an 
ex-President of the Society, and it was distributed, as usual, to all 
our exchanges, over two hundred in number. The Provincial Gov- 
ernment purchased copies to the amount of $250 for free distribution. 
