VII ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
During the past year there have been held nine meetings of the 
Society, and fifteen meetings of the Council. The proceedings at these 
meetings are conducted indiscriminately in French and English, a 
fact illustrative of the good understanding prevailing in our mixed 
membership. 
The following papers have been read before the Society during 
the past year:— 
“The Canadian Wellington Tokens,” by Mr. R. W. McLachlan. 
“Canadian Coins and Medals Acquired by the Writer during 
1900,” by Mr. R. W. McLachlan. 
“ Halifax Currency as the Precursor of the Decimal System,” by 
Mr. R. W. McLachlan. 
“Documentary History of the ‘Side View’ Coinage of the Bank 
of Montreal, issued in 1838 and 1839,” by Mr. R. W. McLachlan. 
“A Communication on the find of Louis d’Or on the Coast of 
Cape Breton,’ by Dr. Charles P. Bissette. 
“ Le Site de la Bataille des Plaines d’Abraham, 1759,” by Hon. 
Justice Baby. 
“ A propos d’un Livre” (Rapport de Marriott), by Judge Sicotte. 
Most, if not all, of these papers have been, or will be, printed in 
the Antiquarian, a quarterly magazine, the publication of which is 
one of the special and most interesting matters with which the Society 
charges itself. The Antiquarian has now reached the second number 
of the third series, or nearly twenty volumes in all, and is welcomed 
in exchange by some of the most important scientific and literary 
societies and libraries in the world. An interesting feature of its 
forthcoming numbers will be the publication of the original manu- 
script of Verchéres de Boucherville recently acquired by the Society. 
The author therein relates the story of his connection with the North- 
West Fur Company, and the part he played in the war of 1812, and 
his MS. cannot fail in proving of rare historical value as a contribution 
by an actual participant in the scenes he depicts. 
The Society, considering its resources, and the time it has been 
at work collecting, may be congratulated upon the possession of a 
fairly large, comparatively valuable, and extremely interesting collec- 
tion of antiquities, coins, medals and portraits, which are freely open 
to all visitors to the Museum. The collection has, indeed, far 
outgrown the bounds of the existing catalogue, and a committee has 
been appointed to compile a new one brought down to date, which it 
is hoped to have ready for the present tourist season. The Society 
has, in its books and pamphlets, a fine nucleus about which it is hoped 
to gather and establish a public library. The library is now available 
