TY; ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
Our membership during 1900 was increased by 31 new subscribers, 
and a few more have joined since the beginning of the present year. 
The Society has passed through a year of useful activity. In the 
spring of last year about 500 new volumes were added to the library, 
and these have proved an additional attraction to new members. The 
new books were representative of all classes of literature; a new depar- 
ture in our book-buying being the purchase of the best current fiction, 
both English and foreign. 
The Society issued a Bulletin, in which its aims and work were 
summarized. A paragraph from the Bulletin may be quoted. It 
concerns the Plains :— 
The Society having originally initiated public action in the 
matter, having kept public interest alive on the subject since it was 
first broached, up to the present time, and having now taken a leading 
part in seeing the negotiations through what we all hope is their 
final stage, may be excused if it quotes, on its own behalf, the time- 
worn truth of quorum pars magna fui. 
Another matter of universal Canadian interest in which the 
‘Society has intervened, is the erection in Quebec of a memorial to 
General Montgomery, who fell on the 31st of December, 1775, in his 
unsuccessful assault on the city. Seeing that Montgomery was an 
ex-officer of the British Army, a stern invader of our soil, and a 
would-be destroyer of Quebec, the Society, while entertaining none 
but the friendliest feelings for Americans of this and former genera- 
tions, still thought it would be an untoward event to have the deeds 
of an invader conspicuously glorified at the very gates of the city which 
he hoped to sack. Copies of the Society’s resolutions were sent to the 
Government and to leading individuals and newspapers all over 
Canada. 
The following are the office-bearers of the Society for 1901:— 
President—Wm. Wood, Esq. 
1st Vice-President—Sir James LeMoine. 
2nd Vice-President—J. T. Ross, Esq. 
3rd Vice-President—Cy. Tessier, Esq. 
4th Vice-President—P. Johnston, Esq. 
Treasurer—James Geggie, Esq. 
Corresponding Secretary—J. F. Dumontier, Esq. 
Recording Secretary—Alex. Robertson, Esq. 
Council Secretary—Wm. Clint, Esq. 
Librarian—F. C. Wurtele, Esq. 
Curator, Museum—Frank Carrell, Esq. 
Curator, Apparatus—Geo. Lampson, Esq. 
