PROCEEDINGS FOR 1886. U1 
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Downixa Street, March 26, 1886. 
Governor-General the Most Hon. the MArqurss or LANSDOWNE, G. C. M. G., dc. : 
My Lorp,—I have received and laid before the Queen your Lordship’s despatch, No. 50, of the 
23rd ult., forwarding for Her Majesty’s acceptance a copy of the Transactions of the Royal Society of 
Canada, for the year 1884, and I am commanded to convey to the Society, through your Lordship, 
Her Majesty’s thanks for the volume. 
I have, ete., 
(Signed) GRANVILLE, 
The Honorary Secretary communicated to Professor Bonney, the distinguished President of the 
Geological Society of London, the fact of his having been unanimously elected one of the Correspond- 
ing Members of the Royal Society, and subsequently received the following letter of acceptance :— 
British ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE, 
22 Albemarle St., Lonpon, W., June 18, 1885. 
To J. G. Bourinor, Esq., Hon.-Sec. Roy. Soc. Canada: 
SiR,--Your letter of June 2nd, announcing my election as a Corresponding Member of the Royal 
Society of Canada, has caused me no less surprise than pleasure. I should not have deemed myself 
worthy of so high an honour, and shall regard it as an incentive to render myself worthy of the con- 
fidence which your members have reposed in me. Pray convey to them my sincere thanks, and 
express my sense of obligation. 
I remain, Sir, yours faithfully, 
T. G. Bonney. 
During the past winter the Council had the honour of an interview with the Premier and other 
members of the Government of Canada, and urged on them the desirability of continuing the grant 
of $5,000 which the Society has received for the last three years. Several members of the Council 
addressed the Ministers on the subject, and the Premier replied in very satisfactory terms, expressing 
his approval of the work already done by the Society, and his own opinion that it was deserving of 
financial assistance. He promised to bring the matter to the attention of his colleagues, and at his 
suggestion the Council addressed a memorial to the Governor-General, setting forth the objects and 
labors of the Society and formally praying for a renewal of the grant. We are happy to be able to 
state that the Government has placed the sum in the Estimates, and we have every confidence that 
Parliament will approve the recommendation and pass the vote in due form. 
The Council have continued to coéperate with the British Association in pressing on the Cana- 
dian Government the importance of publishing Tide Tables, and the necessity of establishing for 
this purpose stations for continuous Tidal Observations in the waters of the Dominion. A large dele- 
gation, composed of members of the Royal Society, of the Committee appointed by the British Asso- 
ciation, and of the Board of Trade of Montreal, waited on the Minister of Marine and Fisheries in 
January last, and gave him full explanations on a subject of such great interest to the commerce 
and marine of Canada. At a subsequent interview, on the same day, with the Premier and other 
members of the Cabinet, arguments were advanced in favour of the scheme, and information given on 
practical points connected with the proposed observations. It is satisfactory to know that the mem- 
bers of the Government appeared to approve of the propositions submitted to them, but in conse- 
quence of the expenditures entailed by the surveys of Georgian Bay and by the expeditions to Hudson 
Bay, they have been unable, so far, to recommend a vote to Parliament. The deputation, however, 
