PROCEEDINGS FOR 1883. LXT 
Art, has called into being an Academy with every promise of advantage to the Fine Arts; and now 
the members of this Society have to acknowledge a like service rendered to Letters and Science. 
We learn with deep regret that this may be the last opportunity afforded us personally to express 
to Your Excellency the high sense which we entertain of your disinterested zeal in this cause. It 
will be our earnest endeavour to secure by our united labours the advantages to this Dominion which 
Your Excellency has indicated as a legitimate object of hope from the united action of the represen- 
tatives of the various departments of Science and Letters thus brought into active co-operation; and 
should the high expectations which have been given expression to, be hereafter realized in any 
adequate degree, it will be a pleasure to ourselves, and to those who shall succeed us, to recall the 
unwearied kindness and courtesy with which Your Excellency has enabled us to carry out the first 
steps in the organization of this Society. 
We trust that the years spent by your Excellency and Her Royal Highness in Canada may recall 
no less pleasant memories than those which we shall ever associate with the period of your Governor- 
Generalship. 
We now desire to convey to you our united assurance that in whatever part of the world you 
may be hereafter called upon to serve the Empire, gratitude for the interest which you have mani- 
fested in everything tending to the development of Canada will be associated with the profound 
respect with which we now greet you as the representative of our Most Gracious Sovereign; and 
pray that God’s choicest blessings may rest on yourself and your Royal Consort. 
The foregoing address was agreed to, and it was resolved that it be presented to his Excellency 
by the whole Society. 
The Society then adjourned until the following day at 10 o’clock. 
May 25th, 1883. 
The members of the Society assembled at the hour of ten o'clock in the Railway Committee 
room. Mr. George Stewart, Jr., was appointed Secretary pro tempore, in the absence of Mr. J. G. 
Bourinot. 
The Society resumed the consideration of the draft of Regulations prepared by the Council. 
The sixth section, having been read, was amended as follows on motion of Principal Grant, 
seconded by Mr. George Stewart, Jr. : 
That the Fellows be persons resident in the Dominion of Canada or in Newfoundland, who have 
published original works or memoirs of merit, or have rendered eminent services to Literature or 
Science. 
The number of members in each section shall be limited to twenty. Any vacancy occurring 
in any section shall be reported to the section by its Secretary at the first meeting thereafter. The 
section shall then proceed to nominate by ballot for the filling of such vacancy. The nomination, 
with reasons stated in writing, shall then be transmitted to the Council and by it submitted for final 
vote to the Society at its next general meeting. 
It was then resolved on motion of Professor McGregor, seconded by Professor Bailey : 
That the foregoing section be adopted as a provisional arrangement for the year, and that the 
Council be requested to furnish the members before or at the next meeting with information which 
may form a basis of discussion of the subjects of this section. 
The seventh section having been read, was amended on motion of Dr. Selwyn, seconded by Prin- 
cipal Grant, by placing the subscription at two dollars a year, or the sum of $20 in one payment in 
commutation of the same for life 1rembership, and by leaving out the last clause, commencing with 
the words “any member, ete.” 
On motion of Professor Cherriman, seconded by Professor Johnson, it was resolved to add the 
following clause to section 7: 
Any member may withdraw from the Society and the Society may, by resolution in general 
