ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA. 

ER OCHEDINGS FOR 1856. 

FIFTH GENERAL MEETING, MAY, 1886. 

SESSION I. (May 25th.) 
The Royal Society of Canada held its fifth general meeting in the Railway Committee room, 
Parliament Buildings, Ottawa, on Tuesday, May 25th. The President, Dr. Daniel Wilson, took the 
chair at 11 o’clock a.m., and formally called the meeting to order. 
The Honorary Secretary then read the following 
Report or Councit. 
The Council have the honour to submit their Annual Report. 
In the month of May last, the Council appointed the following gentlemen as members of the 
Printing Committee, viz., Drs. T. Sterry Hunt and Daniel Wilson, Sir William Dawson, Prof. Alex, 
Johnson, Drs. Fréchette and Chauveau, and Mr. Thos. Macfarlane, of whom three should constitute a 
quorum. 
The following Report of the Printing Committee has been submitted to the Council:— 
“The Printing Committee have to report the publication of the third volume of the Proceedings 
and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, which appeared May 22nd, and contains 640 pages 
of text (being a little larger than the report last year), and not less than thirteen pages of maps and 
plates. They would note also the great number of pages of tabulated figures in the paper on the 
Longitude of Montreal, the printing of which necessarily caused much additional expense and con- 
siderable delay. Still farther delays have been caused by the great amount of alteration made by 
some writers in their proof-sheets, and by their remissness in many cases in returning these sheets. 
The Committee, under all these circumstances, have reason for congratulation in the fact that their 
task is completed before the Annual Meeting, and that copies of the volume are now in the hands of 
the Society. Their thanks are due for the many courtesies shown by the publishers Messrs. Dawson 
Bros. of Montreal, and to Mr. R. W. Boodle, the acting editor, for his skill, care and efficient services. 
“They call attention to the fact that of the Report on Fellowships, etc., which forms an Appen- 
dix of fourteen pages to the Proceedings of this year, 750 copies, printed apart, have already been 
distributed to the members of the Society, to Universities, learned societies, and others interested. 
“The Committee would earnestly recommend to all the members of the Society greater care in 
the preparation of their papers for publication. No paper should be sent to the Secretaries until it is 
Proc. 1886. A. 
