rEOCBEDlNGS FOlt 1885. XXIII 



SESSION IV. {May 28th.} 

 The Tresident took the chair at 10.30 o'clock, A.M. 



Miscellaneous Business. 



Eev. jEneas McD. Dawson moveiV seconded by Abbé Tangiiay, " That the votes of the Fel- 

 lows of a Section in which an election is required, who are unavoidably absent from illness or any 

 other cause, be counted, as well as the votes of such as can be present at the meeting at which the 

 election must take place ; that such absentee members be atlbrded full opportunity of giving their 

 votes, and that it be left to the Council of the Royal Society to arrange and determine in what way 

 the votes of necessarilj^ absent Fellows shall bo taken." 



Di-. Johnson moved in amendment, seconded by Dr. Chauveau, " That the matter be referred to 

 the Council with a request to report thereon to the Society next year." 



And the question being put on the amendment, it was agreed to, and the main motion amended 

 accordingly. 



The following motions were agreed to : — 



On motion of Dr. Chauveau, seconded by M. Marchand, "That the (question of tlie augmenta- 

 tion of Corresponding Members be referred to the Council." 



On motion of Sir William Dawson, seconded by Mr. Eourinot, "That the Council be requested to 

 Ibrmulate a rule with regard to Amendments to the Constitution, and submit it to tiie Society at its 

 next general meeting." 



The meeting was then adjourned until the following day at 10 o'clock, A.M. 



SESSION V. (May 22th.) 

 The President took the chair at 10 o'clock, A.M. 



Miscellaneous Business. 



Mr. T. C. Keefer made a brief report of the work performed by the Hamilton Association, and 

 handed in a printed copy of its Transactions. 



The Society then jjroceeded to the election of new Fellows. 



The Honorary Secretary read the following communication from Section I, in accoi'dance with 

 Eule <j :— 



Société Eoyale du Canada. 

 Ottawa, 28 mai 1885. 



J. G. Bourinot, Esq., 



Secrétaire honoraire S. S. du Canada. 



Monsieur, ^- 



J'ai l'honneur de vous informer que la 1ère section de la Société Eoyale du Canada a nommé au 

 siège laissé vacant par la mort de M. Oscar Dunn, M. Alfred Puclos-DeCelles, conservateur de la biblio- 

 thèque du parlement canadien. Les principaux titres de M. DeCelles à ce choix sont la haute valeur 

 de cet écrivain comme journaliste, et les importants travaux littéraires et historiques qu'il a publics 

 dans diverses revues. 



La section a également nommé au siège laissé vacant par la démi.ssion de M. Napoléon Bourassa, 



