XXXII EOYAIi SOCIETY OF CANADA, 



On the motion of Professor Johnson, seconded by Professor Cherriman, the following Com- 

 mittee was appointed on the foregoing subject: Professors Johnson, MacGregor, Chei-riman, Dr. Hunt 

 and Mr. Suite. 



On the motion of Di-. Hunt, seconded by Professor Cherriman, it was unanimously 



Resolved, That the name of the Marquis of Lome, the creator and organizer of our Society, appear 

 henceforth in the volumes of our Transactions as "The Founder of the Eoyal Society of Canada." 



The Society then elected, on the j)roposal of Messrs. Stewart, Kirby and Denison {vide Eule 8) 

 the following gentlemen to be corresponding members of the Society: The Right Honourable the 

 Marquis of Lome, and Mr. Francis Parkman, also M. E. Rameau de Saint Père, on the proposal of 

 Dr. Frechette, Abbé Tanguay, and Mr. LeMoine. 



The following Resolution was then adopted, on the motion of Professor Johnson, seconded by 

 Mr. G. Stewart, jun. : — 



"That in acting under Eule 8 of the Constitution, four of the corresponding members shall be 

 elected for each section ; and the name or names proposed, the names of the proposers, and the 

 reasons in writing, shall be announced to the Society through the Honorary Secretary at least one 

 day before the balloting for any such corresponding member." 



Roles respecting the Re.\.din« of Papers. 

 Dr. Hunt submitted the following rules with respect to the reading of papers: — 



I. — The representatives of each Section in the Council shall be the judges of the papers to be ac- 

 cepted or rejected. No paper shall be read in any Section, at any general meeting of the Society, 

 unless it has been presented, either in full or in abstract, at least three weeks before the first day of 

 the meeting, and formally accepted by the Council, in accordance with Rule 10 of the Society, except 

 by special permission of the Council. The publication of any paper not so accepted, as having been 

 read before O)' presented to it, may be disavowed by the Society. 



II. — No paper already published shall be accepted by the Society except in cases where it shall 

 have been entirely recast. 



III. — A programme containing the titles of pajjers to bo read shall be printed and sent to the 

 members of the Society at least one week before the time of meeting. 



IV. — It shall be the duty of the secretaries of each Section to prepare before each day's meeting 

 a list of the papers to be presented to each Section, with the names of the authors and the time de- 

 manded for their reading. These lists shall be printed and made public each morning before the 

 time fixed for the meeting. 



On the motion of Professor Lawson, seconded by Dr. Selwyn, the foregoing rules were agi-eed to. 



Election of Officers. 



The Society then proceeded to the Election of Officers for the ensuing year, and the following 

 were unanimously chosen : — 



President — Dr. T. Sterry Hunt, on the motion of Colonel Denison, seconded by Mr. G. 

 Stewart, jun. 



Vice-President — Dr. Daniel Wilson, on the motion of the Very Reverend T. Harael, seconded 

 by Professor Chapman. 



Honorary Secretary — John George Bourinot, on the motion of Professor Lawson, seconded by 

 Professor Johnson. 



Honorary Treasurer — Dr. J. A. Grant, on the motion of Mr. George Stewart, jun., seconded by 

 Colonel Denison. 



On the motion of Professor Lawson, seconded by Dr. Grant, the following Resolution was 

 ajj-reed to : — 



