PEOCEBDINGS FOR 1891. XLVII 



The election of ofiScers took place at the annual meeting in January last resulting as follows : 



President— George Stewart, D.C.L., LL.D., D.Litt., F.R.G.S. 



1st Vice-President — William Hossack, Esq. 



2nd Vice-President — Very Eev. Dean Norman, D.D., D.C.L. 



3rd Vice-President — Cyrille Tessier, Esq. 



4th Vice-President — Archibald Campbell, Esq. 



Treasurer — Edwin Pope, Esq. 



Librarian — Fred. C. Wurtele, Esq. 



Recording Secretary — T. Ainslie Young, Esq. 



Corresponding Secretary— W. A. Ashe, Esq., F.R.A.S. 



Council Secretary— W. C. H. Wood, Esq. 



Curator of Museum — Wm. Clint, Esq. 



Curator of Apparatus — C. B. Langlois, Esq. 



Additional members of the Council : 



Peter .Johnston, Esq. 

 J. M. Lemoine, Esq. 

 P. B. Casgrain, Esq. 

 Dr. J. M. Harper, F.E.I.S. 



W. S. Bennett, Esq., was named auditor. 



It was then moved by A. Campbell, Esq., and seconded by W. C. 11. Wood, Esq., and carried : — 

 " Inasmuch as there is to be a naval exhibition in England in May next, and inasmuch as the society 

 has in its possession a model of the first steamship that crossed the ocean, built in the port of Quebec 

 by a Quebec merchant, and modelled by a Quebec ship architect, that such a model must command 

 attention, that the said model be lent for the said exhibition — the patron of which is Our Gracious 

 Majesty — the mover undertaking that tlie same be returned in due course in the same condition, 

 without any expense to the society." 



The model of the steamship Royal William was forwarded to the exhibition committee at Chelsea 

 and duly received, and has attracted considerable attention, thus again bringing Canada and Quebec 

 pi'ominently before the British public. 



X. — From The Pen and Pencil Club of Montreal, through Dr. S. B. Dawson. 



The Pen and Pencil Club of Montreal was formed on the 5th March, 1890, and was incorporated 

 under the law of the Pi-ovince of Quebec on the 11th November of the same year. 

 The object of the club is the cultivation and enjoyment of the arts and of letters. 



The first officers of the club were : 



S. E. Dawson, President. 



O. R. Jacobi, Vice President. 



J. Try-Davies, Honorary Secretary and Treasurer. 



The members are : William Brymner, R.C.A ; E. B. Brownlow ; S. E. Dawson, Lit. D. ; J. Try- 

 Davies; E. Dyonnet; L. Frechette, LL.D., M.R.S.C. ; William Hope; Robert Harris, R.C.A. ; Otlo R. 

 Jacobi, Près. R.C.A. ; John E. Logan ; Paul Lafleur, M.A. ; William McLennan, B.C.L. ; J. C. Pinhey, 

 R.C.A. ; Norman T. Rielle, B.A., B.C.L. ; Munsey Seymour ; Forbes Torrance; W. C. Van Home; 

 Percy Woodcock, R.C.A. : Ivan Wocherspoon, Q.C. 



