PROCEEDINGS FOR 1900 À: 
3. STOCK OF TRANSACTIONS IN HAND. 
It has been the object of the Society to give the fullest possible 
circulation to their Transactions, and it is safe to say that at the present 
time they reach almost every library, university, and learned society of 
note throughout the civilized world. Chiefly supported by the liberality 
of the Government of Canada, the Society have always felt it their duty 
to supply their volumes free of all charges wherever they can be of most 
use in the way of extending information in the fruitful departments of 
scientific and historical study and investigation which their Transactions 
chiefly cover. While this liberal circulation of the sixteen volumes already 
printed has drawn heavily year by year on the stores of the Society, a 
fire in the course of Jast autumn also destroyed a large number of sheets 
stored in Montreal. Tais loss was well covered by the insurance policies, 
which have been carefully kept up by the Secretary from the publication 
of the first volume. The stock in hand either in bound volumes or in 
sheets, has been always kept in more than one storehouse, and the danger 
from fire consequently minimized as far as possible. Henceforth it will 
not be possible to show as much liberality as heretofore in the gratuitous 
distribution of early volumes, as they must be preserved for the use of 
the Society in the future, and only distributed in very special cases to 
important institutions. The following is a list to date of the stock in 
hand, besides a few volumes kept by the Secretary in the Parliament 
Building: 
Royal Society of Canada Volumes, Nov. 20, 1899. 
8 Volume No. 1 Old Series Done up Full cloth. 
12 ce ce 2 ce “ es os Sheets. 
13 cc << D) ce “ cc fe 4 bound. 
59 ce ce 2 ce € es £ Full cloth. 
a cc SANTE D “ 4 MPMENLCIO EN: 
43 ce TAC SIN “ en a fé Sheets; 
66 < ee “ lS o@iheets: 
18 cc 66 4 cc cc ce “ Full cloth. 
83 ce € LOUE x Piya) Sheers: 
à “ KS 5 ee “Æ di 2 Sewed. 
82 € ce 6 cc cc ce a Sheets. 
11 ce ce 6 ce ce as = Full cloth. 
ry ce cc y ce ce “5 se Full cloth. 
56 cc “ Là ce cé KS se Sheets. 
125 ce cc 8 ce ce sé Sheets. 
