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felt encouraged by the interview, and there is much reason for coming to the conclusion that no long 
time can pass before the Government will take the matter into their earnest and favourable considera- 
tion. Under these circumstances, the Council recommend that the Royal Society continue to press 
on the Government and the Parliament of Canada the importance of these Observations. 
In accordance with the regulations of the Royal Society, invitations were issued by the Honorary 
Secretary to the leading literary and scientifie societies of Canada, asking them to send delegates to 
take part in all general and sectional meetings for the reading aud discussion of papers, and to com- 
municate statements of the work done by their respective associations. It is gratifying to find that 
the responses to these invitations have been most cordial, and we shall have an average attendance of 
representatives of bodies who are doing a most useful work throughout the Dominion. The Transac- 
tions for the past two years contain summaries of the labours and investigations of these societies, 
which will be very interesting to all those wishing information as to the intellectual development of 
this country. The Council believe that in thus coüperating with all the kindred societies throughout 
the Dominion, the Royal Society is performing a work which is eminently satisfactory, since it 
enables a number of persons to meet together from all parts of Canada, and compare notes of literary 
and scientific progress in its different Sections. The Royal Society is not exclusive, but is intended 
to be thoroughly national and representative in its object and scope. 
The following is a list of the Societies which have appointed delegates to this Annual Meeting : — 
List or DELEGATES FROM AFFILIATED SOCIETIES. 
. Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Moutreal—W. D. Lighthall. 
. Historical Society, Winnipeg.— Rev. Dr. G. Bryce. 
. Entomological Society of Ontario— W. H. Harrington. 
. Literary and Historical Society of Quebec.—Dr. J. M. Harper. 
. Natural History Society of Montreal.—d. H. Mason. 
. Nova Scotia Historical Society.—Rev. Dr. J. Forrest. 
. Natural History Society of St. John, N.B.—J. A. Estey. 
. Institut Canadien, Ottawa.—#. R. E. Campeau. 
. Société Historique de Montréal.— 4. Garneau. 
10. Ottawa Literary and Scientifie Society.— W. P. Anderson. 
11. Canadian Institute, Toronto.—Prof. W. H. Ellis. 
12. Institut Canadien de Québec.—J. J. T. Frémont. 
15. Geographical Society of Quebec.—H. J. J. B. Chouinard. 
14. Ottawa Field Naturalists’ Club—R. B. Whyte. 
15. Nova Scotian Institute of Natural Science.—A. H. MacKay (substitute, Maynard Bowman). 
16. Murchison Society of Belleville—Thos. Wills. 
17. Hamilton Association —T. C. Keefer. 
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The necessity of a stricter compliance with the rule that requires members to send in titles 
and abstracts of papers, at least three weeks before the day of the Annual General Meeting, is urged 
by the Council in view of the great advantages that all the members derive from being made cogni- 
sant in time of the subjects that are to be discussed in the Sections. For the first time this year, 
the Honorary Secretary published the titles and abstracts so far as he had received them, and for- 
warded them by mail to the members of the Society. But it will be seen that the rule has been 
observed in only a few cases. It is also necessary to state that members should make their abstracts 
as brief as possible. In one or two cases the matter was altogether too full for publication. 
It is satisfactory to know that the volumes of the Transactions which have been sent to other 
