II ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
The Honorary Secretary then read the following 
REPORT OF COUNCIL. 
The Council of the Royal Society of Canada have the honour to 
present their eighteenth report as follows : 
1. THE SEAL oF THE ROYAL SOCIETY, 
Adopted at our last meeting, has been carefully engraved, and will 
appear henceforth at the beginning of every volume of the transactions. 
It is the intention to append it henceforth to all papers of an official 
character, like the diploma of the appointment of Fellows. Those 
old members, who wish to receive such authoritative commissions, can 
communicate with the Honorary Secretary, who will comply with their 
requests as soon as possible. 
2. PRINTING OF TRANSACTIONS. 
The fifth volume of the new series is now being bound, and in 
course of distribution. In addition to 140 pages of Minutes of Pro- 
ceedings, it contains twenty-eight papers, in the four sections, making 
in the aggregate one thousand pages, and is consequently one of the 
largest volumes of the new series. Authors have received, as usual, a 
generous number of copies of their own papers in pamphlet form—about 
three thousand six hundred copies altogether. The volume contains 
one hundred and sixty maps and illustrations, and is the most elaborately 
illustrated volume ever issued by the Society, especially in the His- 
torical section, where a great deal of valuable work has been done of 
late years. Professor Ganong closes his admirable contributions to 
the history of New Brunswick, and the Royal Society owe him their 
thanks for his patient, careful researches in a field of study heretofore 
neglected. Another paper rescues from oblivion a number of valuable 
portraits, sketches and documents relating to the early history of Nova 
Scotia. The illustrations, as usual, have been supervised by the Queen’s 
Printer, Dr. 8. E. Dawson, who is himself a contributor to the volume. 
Mr. Doughty, to whom the Society are indebted for the design of the 
Seal of the Society, also contributes a most carefully prepared paper on 
the Plains of Abraham, to which he has added several maps and plans. 
The printing accounts have been audited, as usual, by the officials of 
the Government Printing Bureau. 
