ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA. 



PROCKEDINGS FOR 1891. 



TENTH GENERAL MEETING, MAY, 1891. 



SESSION I. (3Iay 21th.) 



The Eoyal Society of Canada held its tenth general meeting in the William Molson Hall, Montreal, 

 on Wednesday, May 2Yth. The President, Very Eev. Principal George M. Grant, D.D., LL.D., took 

 the chair at 10.30 o'clock a.m. and formally called the meeting to order. 



The Acting Secretary, Dr. George Stewart, F.R.G.S., in the regretted absence of the Hon. Secre- 

 tary, Dr. J. George Bourinot, C.M.G., read the roll of membei-s, and the following answered to their 

 names : — 



List of Members Present. 



L'Abbé Casgi-ain, l'Abbé Cuoq, Paul de Gazes, A. D. De Celles, Faucher de Saint-Maurice, Louis 

 Fi'échette, Napoleon Legeudre, J. M. Lemoine, F. G. Marchand, Jos. Marmette, B. Suite, Mgr. Tanguay, 

 Joseph Tassé, l'Abbé Verreau, Eev. jEneas McD. Dawson, G. T. Denison, Principal Grant, W. Kings- 

 ford, George Murray, Eev. .T. Clark Murray, Evan McCoU, Hqv. G. Patterson, John Ecade, C. G. D. 

 Eoberts, George Stewart, Jr., Ecv.W. H.Withrow, C. Baillairgé, H. T. Bovey, C. Carpmael, N. F. Dupuis, 

 Sandford Fleming, Dr. Girdwood, F. N. Gisborne, Mgr. Hamel, B. J. Harrington, G. C. Hoffmann, A. 

 Johnson, T. Macfarlane, J. G. MacGregor, Ij. W. Bailey, T. J. Burgess, G. M. Dawson, Sir W. Dawson, 

 J. Fletcher, Sir James Grant, l'Abbé Laflamme, G. Lawson, J. Macoun, G. F. Matthew, A. H. Mackay, 

 T. W. Mills, D. P. Penhallow, W. Saunders, A. E. C. Sclwyn, J. F. Whitcaves. 



The President then introduced Sir Donald A. Smith, President of the Montreal Eeception Com- 

 mittee, Eev. Dean Carmichael, Mr. James McShane, M.P.P., Mayor of Montreal, Dr. J. L. 

 Leprohon, Senator Ed. Murphy and Sir William Dawson, LL.D,, who briefly addressed the 

 meeting. After remarks by the President, Vice-president and Hon. F. A. Walker, President of the 



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