PEOCEEDINGS FOR 1896 XXIX 



relating to the Hudson's Bay Company date from 1673, thi-ee years after 

 the first charter was granted and are continued to 1759, these being all 

 that are contained in the Public Record office. 



In the Hudson's Bay house were found the journals of the exphjrer 

 Radisson for 1682-3 and 1684, of which copies were made. A translation 

 of these, found in a place of deposit elsewhere, was published by the 

 Prince Society of Boston, but it was thought advisable to print the 

 originals, with a translation by Dr. Brjmmer, in the report on Archives, 

 a course which has been apjjroved of by the historical writers who have 

 treated of these early voyages. 



Very interesting documents and a chart of Sable Island and vicinity, 

 also pubhshed in the report will be found useful for eomparison to show 

 the changes that have taken place on this fatal sandbank. 



General Business. 



The following motions were agreed to : 



(1) " Resolved. That the repoi-t of the council be forthwith taken 

 into consideration." (On motion of Dr. Stewart, seconded by Professor 

 Bovey.) 



(2) " Resolved^ That Professor Euttan's election by Section III. be 

 confirmed." (On motion of Professor Goodwin, seconded by Dr. Hoff- 

 mann.) 



(3) " Resolved, That Professor Adams's election by Section IV. be 

 confirmed." (On motion of Dr. A, H. Mackay, seconded by Professor 

 Penhallow.) 



(4.) " Resolved, That Mr. W. B. Dawson be elected a member of the 

 third section, in accordance with the recommendation of the council.' 

 (On motion of Dr. Johnson, seconded by Professor Goodwin.) 



(5) " Resolved, That on the first day of every annual meeting of 

 the Royal Society, a committee composed of the president of the society, 

 and a member selected b}^ each section, be appointed to make nominations 

 for the ofiicers of the society, and to submit them to the society tor elec- 

 tion." (On motion of Professor Bovey, seconded by Dr. Stewart.) 



The Cabot Celebration. 



Report of the Committee ((ppointed in May, 1895, in relation to the Com- 

 memoration in 1897 of the Discovery of the Mainland of North. 

 America by John Cabot. 



Your committee regret that, in discussing this important question, 

 the society will not. at this meeting, have the aid of two of the members 

 of the committee — the Most Reverend the Archbishop of Halifax and 

 Mr. Sandford Fleming — who, from their intimate local knowledge, apart 

 from all other considerations, would be of great assistance in the deliber- 

 ations of the society. They are, however, confident that the substance of 



