IT ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA. 
in a completed state and ready for printing, without farther additions. They would also urge that 
papers should be sent in without delay, in order that printing might commence at once, and would 
recommend that August Ist be fixed as a date at which all matter should be in the hands of the 
Printing Committee, and after which no more can be received. 
“They have got from the publishers a statement herewith appended of the number of copies of 
the Volumes I and II, now on hand, amounting to 298 copies of Vol. I, and 327 copies of Vol. IT. 
“The accounts of the Society with the publishers, up to May 22nd, have been received and are 
herewith submitted.” 
Montreat, May 22nd, 1886. 
The Royal Society of Canada. 
To Dawson Brothers, Dr. 

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A special copy of the Transactions for the year 1884 was forwarded to Her Majesty the Queen, 
through His Excellency the Governor-General, and the following acknowledgment duly received :— 
Orrawa, April 19, 1886. 
J. G. Bourtnot, Æsq., Clerk of the House of Commons, de. : 
Sir,—I have the honour to forward to you herewith a copy of a despatch from the Colonial Office, 
acknowledging the receipt of a copy of the Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada for the year 
1884, and conveying Her Majesty’s thanks to the Society. 
I have the hononr to be, Sir, your obedient servant, 
HENRY STREATFIELD, 
Governor-General’s Secretary. 
