ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA. 



PROCEKDINGS FOR 1888 



SEVENTH GENERAL MEETING, MAY, iS88. 



SESSION I. {May 22nd.) 



Tlic Royal Society of Canada held its seventh general meeting in the Railway Committee Room 

 of the House of Commons at Ottawa, on Tuesday, May 22nd. The President, Prof. Lawsou, took the 

 chair at 11 o'clock, a. m., and formally called the meeting to order. 



Dr. Geoi-ge Stewart was called upon to act as secretary in the temporary absence of Dr, 

 Boui-inot. 



The minutes of the sixth general meeting. May, 1887, as printed in the fifth volume of the 

 Transactions, were read and approved. 



The Acting Secretary read the following 



Report of Council. 



The Council of the Royal Society of Canada have the honour to submit their annual report: — 

 Vol. VI of the Transactions of the Society has recently appeared and is now in course of distri- 

 bution. It contains over six hundred and fifty pages of printed matter and several illustrations, on 

 the whole well executed. Much delay has occurred, as in the case of previous volumes, on account of 

 the difficulty of obtaining the return of proofs and revises with a satisfactory degree of promptitude. 

 It is needless, however, to observe that so lai'ge a volume, filled with many abstruse and scientific 

 papers, requiring very exact revision, cannot be rapidly issued like ordinary books ; and the publisher 

 and printer can be congratulated on the excellence of their work and on their efforts to meet the 

 wishes of the authors in every essential particular. At the same time the Council must impress on 

 the authors of papers the difficulty of keeping a large amount of matter for months in type, and the 

 necessity of assisting the printers by every means in their power. We submit the accounts of 

 printing and publishing as audited by the Printing Committee. 



Proc. 1888. A. 



