XXVIII. ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA. 
AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA. 
Wuereas the persons hereinafter mentioned have, by their petition, represented that a Society 
called, with the sanction of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, “The Royal Society of Canada,” 
has been founded in Canada by His Excellency the Right Honorable the Marquis of Lorne, Governor- 
General of Canada; that the said Society has been maintained for some months by the petitioners 
and others, and that the objects of the said Society are :—first, to encourage studies and investiga- 
tions in literature and science ; secondly, to publish transactions annually or semi-annually, contain- 
s, records of the work performed, original papers and 
ing the minutes of proceedings at meeting 
memoirs of merit, and such other documents as may be deemed worthy of publication; thirdly, to 
offer prizes or other inducements for valuable papers on subjects relating to Canada, and to aid 
researches already begun and carried so far as to render their ultimate value probable; fourthly, to 
assist in the collection of specimens with a view to the formation of a Canadian Museum of archives, 
ethnology, archeology and natural history: and whereas the said petitioners have prayed that, for 
the better attainment of the said objects, the Society may be incorporated by Act of the Parliament 
of Canada, and it is expedient to grant the prayer of the said petition: Therefore Her Majesty, by 
and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows :— 
1. J. W. Dawson, C.M.G., LL.D., F.R.S., President; the Honorable P. J. O. Chauveau, LL.D., 
Docteur és Lettres, Vice-President; J. M. LeMoine, Esquire, Daniel Wilson, LL.D., F.R.S.E., T. 
Sterry Hunt, LL.D. FRS. A. R. C. Selwyn, LL.D., FRS. Presidents of Sections; Faucher de St. 
Maurice, Esquire, Charles Carpmael, M.A., George Lawson, Ph.D., LL.D., Vice-Presidents of Sec- 
tions; J. G. Bourinot, F.S.S., Honorary Secretary; J. A. Grant, M.D., F.G.S., Honorary Treasurer ; 
Goldwin Smith, D.C.L., the Reverend Abbé Bégin, D.D., the Reverend Abbé Bois, Napoleon Bourassa, 
Esquire, the Reverend Abbé Casgrain, Docteur és Lettres, Paul DeCazes, Esquire, Oscar Dunn, Es- 
quire, the Honorable Hector Fabre, Louis H. Fréchette, L..D., Napoléon LeGendre, Esquire, Pam- 
phile Lemay, Esquire, the Honorable Mr. Justice Routhier, Docteur és Lettres, Benjamin Sulte, Es- 
quire, the Reverend Abbé Tanguay, Joseph Tassé, Esquire, the Reverend Abbé Verreau, Docteur 
és Lettres, R. Maurice Bucke, M.D., the. Reverend Æneas McDonell Dawson, Lieutenant-Colonel G. T. 
Denison, B.C.L., the Very Reverend G. M. Grant, D.D., William Kirby, Esquire, John Lesperance, 
Esquire, Charles Lindsey, Esquire, the Reverend W. Lyall, LL.D., George Murray, B.A., the Rev- 
erend J. Clark Murray, LL.D., Evan McColl, Esquire, John Reade, Esquire, Charles Sangster, Esquire, 
George Stewart, (the younger), Esquire, Alpheus Todd, C.M.G., LD. J. Watson, M.A., LU.D., G. 
Paxton Young, M.A., C. Baillargé, C.E., Herbert A. Bayne, Esquire, E. J. Chapman, Ph.D., LL.D., 
J. B. Cherriman, M.A., E. Deville, CE , N. F. Dupuis, M A., F.R.S.E., Sandford Fleming, C.M.G., C.E., 
P. Fortin, M.D., G. P. Girdwood, M.D., F. N. Gisborne, M Inst. E., E. Haanel, Ph.D., the Very Rev- 
erend T. E. Hamel, M.A., B. J. Harrington, B.A., Ph.D., G. C. Hoffman, F.I.C., A. Johnson, LL.D., 
J.T. Loudon, M.A., T. Macfarlane, M.E., J. G. McGregor, M.A.,D.Sc., F.R.S.E., L. W. Bailey, M.A., 
Ph.D., Robert Bell, M.D., C.E., F.G.S., G. M. Dawson, D.S.C., A.R.S.M., F.G.S., Edwin Gilpin, M.A., 
E.GS., J. Bernard Gilpin, M.D., M.R.C.S., the Reverend D. Honeyman, D.C.L., J. M. Jones, F.LS, 
the Reverend Professor J. C. K. Laflamme, D.D., J. Macoun, M.A., F.L.S., G. F. Matthew, M.A,, 
Alexander Murray, C.M.G., F.G.8., W. Osler, M.D., W. Saunders, Esquire, D. N. St. Cyr, Esquire, J. 
F, Whiteaves, F.G.S., and R. Ramsay Wright, M.A., B.Se., together with such other persons as now 
ave or may hereafter become members of the Society to be hereby incorporated, under the provisions 
of this Act and the by-laws made under the authority thereof, and their successors, shall be and are 
hereby constituted a body politie and corporate, by the name of “The Royal Society of Canada,” 
hereinafter called the Society, and may, by any legal title, acquire, hold and enjoy, for the use of the 
Society, any property whatever, real or personal, and may alienate, sell and dispose of the same, or 
any part thereof, from time to time and as occasion may require, and other property, real or per- 
sonal, may acquire instead thereof: Provided always, that the annual value of the real estate held at 
any one time for the actual use of the Society shall not exceed four thousand dollars, 
