XTI EOYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA. 



Section IV, for consideration, and tliat the Section in question eliould report, if possible, on the 

 matter before the close of tlie present moeting." (On motion of Dr. G. M. Dawson, seconded by 

 Dr. Selwyn.) 



"Resolved, that the Council be requested to nominate delegates to attend the eight-hundredth 

 anniversary of the foundation of the University of Bologna, and also to acknowledge with thanks tlie 

 receipt of the invitation." (On motion of Dr. Johnson, seconded by Dr. G. Stewart.) 



" Resolved, that a committee consisting of Dr. Bourinot, Mr. Fleming, Mr. Lusignan, Mr. 

 Macfarlane and Di'. Dawson be appointed to collect the opinions of all the members of the Society as 

 to the most convenient time for the annual general meeting, and to re])ort thereon to the (,'Ouiicii." 

 (On motion of Dr. Johnson, seconded by Prof. Macoun.) 



Governor-General's Eeplt to Address. 



The President reported that the deputation appointed by the Society had waited upon His 

 Excellency the Governor-General, who had graciously received the address, and made the following 

 reply:— 



Mr. President and Gentlemen : — I thank you for the kind terms in which you have taken 

 leave of me for the last time, and for the good wishes which 3-ou have expres.sed towards Lady 

 Lansdowne and myself I apj)reciate the attention which you have paid me in coining here this 

 morning, all the more, because it has unfortunately been the case that I have been jjrevented from 

 giving as much practical evidence as I should have wished of the interest which I have felt in the 

 affairs of the Eoyal Society. I am sure that you will not attribute my too frequent absence from your 

 annual meetings to indifference on my part, and that you will umlerstand, that if I was not present 

 when you were in Session, it was simplj' for the reason that my engagements in other parts of the 

 Dominion placed it out of my power to meet you. The loss has in any case been m}^ own, and I have 

 often regretted it. 



I am glad before leaving Canada to have the opportunity of expressing my appreciation of the 

 services which the Royal Society has been able to render to this country, both in respect of the actual 

 literary and scientific work which it has performed, and also by creating a most useful bond of union 

 between literary and scientific men connected with different sections of the Dominion. 



I can assure you that I feel proud of having filled the position of Patron of a Society such as 

 yours, and that the goodwill which j-ou have been kind enough to express as its official representatives 

 is most precious to me. 



I shall 2>reserve, as a valuable memento of the Society, the handsome volumes in which are 

 recorded its Transactions, since the date of its foundation by my predecessor. The six years, the 

 labours of which are summed up in those volumes, form a past to which you are able to appeal with 

 satisfaction. For the future you need, I think, have no uneasiness as to what it has in store 

 for you. 



The Society is based upon foundations which appear to me to be of the utmost stability, and I 

 have no doubt, if it continues to be supported by the intellectual energy of both races, if it continues 

 lo perform faithfully the functions entrusted to it — functions which you have so cori-ectly describetl in 

 your address, — that it will play in the historj- of the Dominion a part of which the usefulness and 

 im]X)rtance will continually increase. 



Permit me to add that the interest which I shall take in the Ro^-al Society will not end with my 

 departure from this countrj^ and to express the hope that you, gentlemen, will, even after I have left 

 your shores, be pleased to count me as one of yourselves. 



