VI EOYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA. 



The steadfast hold the Eoyal Society has now taken in the land shows that your efforts to have 

 such a National Society have been successful. I never doubted that it would succeed, for its object 

 was to unite together the leading sj^irits of the Dominion in literature and science, that they might 

 together, year by year, exhibit to the people their glorious history in the past, and prove to them 

 that they have a country whose mere material wealth is so great that with a proper, manly and 

 determined courage, such as their fathers showed, they can make famous a land second to none in the 

 world. Thus practical science goes hand in hand with the two greatest modern languages to foi-tify 

 your hearts and make the sons of Canada worthy of their God-given national destiny. 



They who weave fictitious plots for her disappearance from the stage of history little know the 

 honest and simple force that guides her onward to run her own course. 



I believe it will be a satisfaction to you in the future to think that, as members of this Society, 

 you have had a part in the sentiment which makes Canada a people able to lift up her head to ask 

 God to bless her progress, and to rely upon herself with His divine aid. 



I remain, Gentlemen, 



Your obedient servant, 



LoRNE. 



Dr. Jno. George Bourinot : 



Dear Sir, — Your obliging letter reached me yesterday. It would give me a great deal of pleas- 

 ure to attend the meeting of the Eoyal Society of C!anada on the 27th of May, but the state of my 

 health — being held prisoner by chronic gout in the knee joints — compels me to lose that satisfaction. 



With many thanks, I remain. 



Very sincerely yours, 



50 Chestnut street, Boston, 1th. March, 1891. F. Parkman. 



23 Denning Egad, Hampstead, N.W., April 3, 1891. 



SiR^ — I regret .to say that it will not be possible for me to visit America this year, and so I can- 

 not avail myself of the courteous invitation of the Eoyal Society of Canada. 



I remain. 



Faithfully yours, 



T. G. Bonnet. 



National Academy op Sciences, 



Washington, D.C, Mat 23, 1891. 



John George Bourinot, C.M.G., LL.D., D.C.L., 



Honora?-!/ Secretary Eoyal Society of Canada : 



Sir, — I have the honor to acknowledge the invitation of the Eoyal Society of Canada, extended 

 to the National Academy of Sciences, to send a delegate to the meeting of your Society, May 27th, 

 and to inform you that I have requested the Hon. Francis A. Walker, of Boston, Vice-president of the 

 National Academy of Sciences, to represent the Academy on that occasion. 



I am, Sii-, with high respect, 



Very truly youi-s, 



O. C. Marsh, 

 President National Academy of Sciences. 



