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To fill the vacancy caused by the decease of the Abbé Casgrain, 

 nominations were asked for in the usual way, and in due time the 

 ballot papers were sent out and returned, with the result that the 

 requisite majority of the Fellows of the whole section voted for the 

 election of L'Abbé Camille Eoy, who is therefore recommended to the 

 Society for election as a Fellow. 



In Section TI. there were two vacancies. Four nominations were 

 received, and the votes were so distributed as not to give a majority 

 of the whole section for any one of them. Both vacancies are therefore 

 still open. 



6. Corresponding Members. 



The Council has received a nomination in due form from the J'irst 

 Section, and in accordance therewith recommends to the Society the 

 election as Corresponding Member of Monsieur Ferdinand Brunetière. 

 M. Brunetière is a member of the Académie Française, editor of the 

 Eevue des Deux Mondes, and the author of much valuable work in 

 letters. In connection with Canada he has taken an important part in 

 establishing the course of study in Literature at Laval University 

 which has been so successful. 



7. Invitations. 



The Fourteenth Annual Session of the International Congress of 

 Americanists is, this year, to be held at Stuttgart, from August 18 to 

 23, and an invitation has been received to send a delegate. 



An invitation was also received from the President, Trustees and 

 Fellows of Brown University to send a delegation to be present at the 

 dedication of the library on May 17. It was acknowledged with 

 thanks, but no meeting of Council occurred in time to take action. 



The President, Eegents and Faculty of the University of Wisconsin 

 also sent an invitation to the Society to depute a representative to 

 attend the Jubilee of the University, — the fiftieth anniversary of its 

 first conrmienicemienit, — at Madison, on June 5 and the five following days. 



8. The American Institute of Electrical Engineers. 



The Committee of Organization of the -International Electrical 

 Congress at St, Louis, hag sent a very cordial invitation to the Eoyal 

 Society to co-operate in the Congress at St, Louis from the 12th to 17th 

 September next. One of our Fellows, Prof. H. T. Barnes, is the Secre- 



