XLVI EOYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA. 



Montreal, May 21th, 1891. 

 To Dr. George Stewart, Act. Sec. B. S. 0. 



Sir, 



In reply to youi- communication from the council requesting Section III to select names to fill 

 the three vacancies in that section, and to report at the present meeting, I am directed to inform 

 you that at the meeting of Section III in the afternoon of this day, May 27th, the names of Mr. T. C. 

 Keefer, of Ottawa, Mr. Ellis, of Toronto, and Mr. Goodwin, of Kingston, were selected for recom- 

 mendation to the society for election as members to fill the vacancies in Section III. 



G. P. GiRDWOOD, 



Acting Secretary. 



The foregoing recommendations of the third section were adopted on motion of Dr. Johnson, 

 seconded by Mr. Macforlane. 



The following reports from affiliated societies were then presented : 



IX. — From The Literary and Historical Society of Quebec, through Very Rev. Dean Norman. 



The Literary and Historical Society of Quebec would thanli the Eoj^al Societj^ of Canada for 

 their kind invitation to send a rejjresentativo to the annual session held this year at Montreal, and 

 would state that the society is in a flourishing condition. The grant from the provincial government 

 has been continued and the roll of membership has slightly increased ; but it is with regret that the 

 society has to announce the loss by death of the valuable services of two of its members, the Hon. 

 P. J. O. Chauveau, LL.D., for many years a prominent littérateur, orator, and statesman, the founder 

 of the department of public instruction of this province, and for some years premier of Quebec, and 

 afterwards speaker of the senate of Canada. He was one of the original members and president of 

 the Royal Society of Canada. The other is D. C. Mackedie, Esq., accountant of the Crown Lands 

 department of this province, who always took great interest in and contributed to the welfare and 

 prosperity of the society. 



There have been three hundred and three accessions to the library by donation and purchase 

 dui'ing the year, and its usefulness has been fully appreciated by the members. 



The new volume of transactions, number twenty, is now in press and will be issued during the 

 comino- month. Among other interesting historical matter it will contain the translation, never 

 before published, of the journal of Mr. F. B. Melsheimer, chaplain of the Brunswick dragoons, who 

 came to Quebec in 1776, and also the index of subjects and authors of all of the society's publications. 



A meeting of citizens was called by his Worship Mayor Fremont for the purpose of erecting a 

 monument to M. de Champlain, the founder of Quebec. The society being in full sympathy with 

 that worthy object, endorses the action of the committee and congratulates it on the success it has met 

 with so much so that the erection of the monument will, it is assured, be not long delayed. 



The Literary and Historical Society also begs to congratulate the government of Quebec and the 

 Eev. Abbé Casgrain, president of the Royal Society for the zeal and skill which they have exhibited 

 in putting into print the valuable manuscripts in their possession and rendering the contents acces- 

 sible to the student and investigator of our history. Abbé Casgrain has been indefatigable in his 

 researches in France, and has brought with him a mine of historical wealth relating to Montcalm and 

 DeLévis. The society also observes with pleasure and satisfaction, the progress which our kindred 

 societies throughout the Dominion are making in their several lines of research and enquiry into 

 historical truths. 



