ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA. 

PR OCHEDIN GS FOR 1585 

SECOND GENERAL MEETING, MAY, 1883. 

The Royal Society of Canada held its second general meeting on the 22nd May, in the Parliament 
Buildings, Ottawa. The members assembled at the hour of 10 o’clock A. M., in the railway com- 
mittee room, and the President, Principal Dawson, took the Chair and formally called the meeting 
to order. 
The Honorary Secretary then read the following 
Z Report or Council. 
Since the meeting of May, 1882, the Council has endeavoured to give attention to the several 
matters committed to it at that meeting and more especially to the following :— 
1. The memorial to Her Majesty the Queen asking her gracious permission to name the Society 
the Royal Society of Canada. To this a favourable answer was received, to the following effect, through 
His Excellency the Governor General: 
From the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies : 
DowninG Srreet, 22nd August, 1882. 
My Lorp, 
‘I have laid before the Queen your Lordship’s despatches, No.’s 50 and 202, of the 9th March and 
18th July, respectively, together with the memorial which accompanied the latter despatch, and Tam 
commanded to inform you that Her Majesty graciously permits the Society organized for the en- 
couragement of Science and Literature in Canada to be styled The Royal Society of Canada. 
You will be so good as to communicate Her Majesty’s decision to the memorialists. 
(Signed,) KIMBERLY, 
Governor-General the Marquis or Lorne, G, C, M. G. 
2, A draft of an Act of incorporation was prepared by the Honorary Secretary and has been 
passed by the Dominion Parliament. A copy accompanies this Report and should be printed with 
the Regulations of the Society. 
