XG ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
corresponding members of the Royal Society of Canada at the last general 
meeting : 
‘“ BoARD OF TRADE, 
* Whitehall Gardens, S.W., 9th June, 1894. 
“Str,—I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 25th 
ultimo, in which you inform me that I have been elected a corresponding 
member of the Royal Society of Canada. TI shall be glad if you will 
kindly convey to the society my very sincere thanks and my sense of the 
high honour they have conferred upon me—an honour which I appre- 
ciate the more by the knowledge that I take the place of so esteemed a 
friend and so eminent a historian as the late Francis Parkman. Believe 
me, with renewed thanks to the society, 
“Yours very faithfully, 
‘J. BRYCE 
“ Dr. J. G. Bourinot, C.M.G.” 
“ CoLONIAL Museum oF NEW ZEALAND, 
‘“ Wellington, 30th July, 1894. 
“ Dear Str,—I beg that you will convey my thanks to the Royal 
Society of Canada for the great honour they have conferred in electing 
me a corresponding member, a distinction which I very highly value, 
some of my earliest geological work having been for the service of the 
Dominion. 
‘€ [ remain, dear sir, 
“Yours faithfully, 
“JAMES HEcTor. 
“ Dr. J. G. Bourinot, C.M.G., Royal Society, Ottawa, Canada.” 
8. THE RoyaAz WILLIAM. 
In accordance with the resolution adopted at the last meeting of the 
Royal Society of Canada, the honorary secretary communicated to his 
Excellency the Governor-General the wish of the various societies inter- 
ested, that he should place the brass tablet which had been ordered by 
parliament in commemoration of the memorable voyage of the “ Royal 
William” across the ocean in 1833. The first meeting of the intercolo- 
nial conference on June 28 was considered a most auspicious occasion for 
bearing public testimony to so interesting an episode in Canadian history. 
