EOYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA. 



Delegates to attend Annual Meeting, May, 1891. 



Society. 



Canadian Literature 



Natural History Society 



Numismatic and Antiquarian Society 



Microscopical Society 



Society of Historical Studies 



Société Historique 



Cercle Littéraire et Musicale de Montréal. . 



Literary and Historical Society 



Geographical Society 



Institut Canadien 



Literary and Scientific Society 



Field-Naturalists' Club 



L'Institut Canadien-Français 



Hamilton Association 



Murchison Scientific Society 



Entomological Society of Ontario 



Canadian Institute 



Natural History Society of N. B 



N. S. Institute of Natural Science 



Historical Society of Nova Scotia 



Natural History Society of B. C 



Wentworth Pioneer and Historical Society . 

 Elgin Historical and Scientific Institute. . . . 



Natural History Society of P. E. Island 



Pen and Pencil Club 



Historical Society of Manitoba 



Place. 



Montreal . 



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 Quebec ... 



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 Ottawa . . . 



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 Hamilton . 

 Belleville . 

 London . . 

 Toronto . . 



Halifax, N. S... 



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Victoria, B. C... 

 Hamilton, Ont . . 

 St. Thomas, Ont. 

 Charlottetown . . 



Montreal 



Winnipeg 



Delegate. 



Mr. G. Martin and Mr. A.Weir. 

 Very Rev. Dean Carmichael. 

 Mr. Justice Baby. 

 Dr. Girdwood. 



Mr. Justice Baby. 



M. Théodore Lafleur. 



Very Rev. Dean Norman, D.D. 



Hon. Lt. Col. Rhodes. 



M. Thomas Chapais. 



Mr. H. B. Small. 



Dr. R. W. Ells. 



M. Napoléon Champagne. 



Mr. T. Mcllwraith. 



Rev. Thos. W. Fyles. 



f Alan Macdougall, CE., or 

 I Mr. Carpmael as substitute. 



Mr. G. U. Hay. 

 Mr. Maynard Bowman. 

 Mr. F. Blake Crofton. 

 Dr. Chas. F. Newcombe. 

 Mr. Geo. H. Mills. 

 Mr. J. H. Coyne. 



Dr. S. E. Dawson. 

 Rev. G. Bryce, D.D. 



It is with much pleasure that the Council of the Eoyal Society are able to record the growing 

 interest that is taken throughout the Dominion in histoiùcal investigations bearing on the archfcology, 

 the ethnology, and the constitutional development of Canada. Some twenty-five or thirty years ago, 

 with the exception of half a dozen local societies, woi-king quietly and unostentatiously in important 

 centres like Halifax, Quebec, Montreal and Toronto, little or nothing w^as done in this direction. Dr. 

 T. B. Akins, an earnest and conscientious student of history, whose death has been recently an- 

 nounced, laboured for years to collect old historic annals that were mouldering in the dust of the Nova 

 Scotia archives. Men like the Eev. Dr. Patterson, of New Glasgow, now one of the most industrious 

 Fellows of the Eoyal Society, as the last volume of the ' Transactions ' shows, devoted himself to the 



