ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA. 

ROC hey DINGS MOT 1582: 

‘ORGANIZATION OF THE SOCIETY. 

In accordance with circulars setting forth the time and place of meeting of the Royal Society for 
the promotion of Literature and Science in the Dominion of Canada, the members assembled in the 
railway committee room, Parliament Building, Ottawa, at ten o’clock in the morning, on Thursday, 
twenty-fifth May, 1882. 
The whole of the members of the Provisional Council were present, with the exception of Mr. 
Goldwin Smith, then absent in England. 
Those whose names are given below constituted the officers for the organization and the first 
session of the Society :— 
PRESIDENT, J. W. Dawson, C.M.G., LL.D., F.R.S. 
Vice-PResIDENT, Hon. P. J. O. Chauveau, LL.D., Docteur és Lettres. 
PRESIDENTS OF SECTIONS. 
Sect. I.— French Literature, History, and Allied Subjects. 
J. M. LeMoine, Membre de la Société Américaine de France. Faucher de St. Maurice, M.P., 
Membre de la Société des Gens de Lettres de France. 
Sect. II —English Literature, History and Allied Subjects. 
Daniel Wilson, LL.D., F.R.S.E. Goldwin Smith, M.A. 
Sect. IIT.— Mathematical, Physical and Chemical Sciences. 
T. Sterry Hunt, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S. Charles Carpmael, M.A. 
Sect. IV.—Geological and Biological Sciences. 
A. R. C. Selwyn, LL.D., F.R.S. George Lawson, Ph.D., LL.D. 
Honorary Secretary —J, G. Bourinot, F.S.S. 
Pro, 1882. a, 
