CVI ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
Report of Section TT. 
The following papers were read before the section : 
1.—< A Plan for a General History of the Province of New Bruns- 
wick,’ by W. F. Ganong, M.A., Ph.D. Communicated by 
Dr. George Stewart, F.R.G.S. 
The writer has for several years been preparing to begin a general history of the 
province of New Brunswick. Compelled for reasons given to alter his intention, he 
here sketches the complete plan for the work as it has outlined itself, after much 
trial and selection. It has permanent value, since it represents an adaptation to the 
historical conditions of that province. It traces first the characteristics of a good 
local history, and secondly shows the application of these to New Brunswick, and 
the logic of the division into periods, etc., of its history. 
2.—“ Religion and Aerolites,’ by Arthur Harvey, F.S.S. 
This is an account of some typical cases of the worship of these bodies, with 
reasons why, in the investigation of the development of religion, more attention 
should be given to this branch of nature-worship. 
3.—‘The Ethics of Literary Originality,” by Mr. George Murray, 
M.A. 
4.—* The Canadian Dominion and proposed Australian Common- 
wealth.” A study in comparative politics. By Dr. Bourinot, 
C.M.G. 
This monograph is intended to supplement a series of constitutional studies 
that have already appeared in the Transactions of the Royal Society. 1. The English 
character of Canadian institutions. 2. Canada and the United States. 3. The 
Federal systems of Canada and the United States. 4. Congressional compared with 
parliamentary government. A summary is here given of the federal constitution of 
Canada, and of that proposed for Australia, and comments made on the differences 
in principle and detail. The paper necessarily is a review of the experiences of 
Canada in working her federal system so far. 
5.—‘*An Iroquois Condoling Council,” by Horatio Hale, M.A. 
(Harvard.) 
In this essay the learned author gives an account of the rarest, and by far the 
most important, ceremony of the Iroquois—their *‘ Condoling Council,” at which a 
deceased chief is publicly lamented, his successor is endowed with his office and 
title, and is formally received into the Great Council of the League. It is styled by 
Morgan the ‘‘ Mourning Council,” but Mr. Hale states in his paper that his Iroquois 
friends prefer his rendering as more clearly expressing the sympathetic nature of the 
ceremony. 
6.—‘‘ The present Position of American Anthropology,” by Professor 
John Campbell, LL.D. 
7.—‘The Proposed Cabot Celebration in Canada in 1897,” by Mr: 
O. A. Howland, M.L.A. of Ontario. Communicated by Dr. 
Bourinot, C.M.G. 
8.—“ Notes on a Short Document from Paris, signed by Charles 
Biencourt,” by Rev. Dr. Patterson. 
9.— Pre-historic Man in British Columbia,’ by Mr. Charles Hill 
Tout. Communicated by Dr. G. M. Dawson, C.M.G. 
The attendance of members was very good. Out of a total of twenty- 
