IV ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



Api. 13 — By John Eobertson (storage) 36 00 



" — " Proofreading (balance) 45 00 



" — " George Cox (stationery) 14 50 



" — " Mortimer & Co. (binding separates) 114 13 



" — " Insurance 12 32 



" — " W. C. Bowles (clerical assistance) 60 00 



" — " Grip Company (illustrations) 76 75 



" — " Jas. Hope & Son 1 75 



" — " Secretary (sundry disbursements) 1 20 



" — " Canada Atlantic Ey 1 45 



" — " Express charges 11 60 



May 13— " Gazette Printing Co. (balance) 425 30 



" 18 — " Manufacturing Stationers' Co. (balance) .... 54 82 



" — " Expenses for arrangements of meeting 47 00 



Balance ' 1,149 82 



$5,000 00 



There was a notable improvement in the date when the papers 

 came in for publication, and this has resulted in an earlier delivery of 

 the separate copies, notwithstanding the unusually late date at which 

 the Government grant was available. The scientific sections can less 

 afford to wait than the literary sections, and tliey therefore have jjre- 

 cedence when possible. A delay in the issue of the separates may imperil 

 a just claim to priority in some important discovery, a consideration 

 which does not apply to the literary sections. The number of separate 

 publications was very large this year. There were 43 papers in the four 

 sections, and 7,112 separates were given to Fellows of the Society. 



2. Transaction's Presented to the King. 



A copy of volume A^III of the Transactions specially bound was 

 presented to His Majesty, and graciously accepted. 



3. Need of a Home. 



The want of a room in which the volumes of Transactions can be 

 opened out so as to be accessible is very badly felt. There are a number 

 of applications for back volumes which might be filled if there was a 

 place to spread out reserve volumes, and select for binding such as are 

 required. The reserve stock is in sheets and luis boon ke])t pnekod in 



