PROCEEDINGS FOR 1902 XI 
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cornwall and York, on this auspicious 
tour of the Dominion. 
It will be of interest to Your Royal Highness to know that the Royal 
Society, which represents a happy union of French and English Canadians 
for the promotion of science and literature, was founded by the present Duke 
of Argyll, when Governor-General of Canada, and owed much of its success 
at its very commencement to the sympathy which it received from Her 
Royal Highness the Princess Louise, who did so much during her residence 
among us to encourage the literary and artistic development of this rela- 
tively new country. 
Representing, then, the two great national elements of the country, the 
Royal Society venture the opinion in all confidence that the people of the 
Confederation will be stimulated even to greater efforts in the future when- 
ever the Empire demands sympathy and aid, and that they will feel drawn 
still closer by ties of affection to the Throne by this visit of Your Royal 
Highness to a Dominion which owes so much of its political strength and 
material advancement to the admirable system of government established 
during the reign of the great Queen, whose memory is so deeply enshrined 
in the hearts of all Canadians. 
(Signed), J. LOUDON, 
President. 
(Signed), JNO. GEO. BOURINOT, 
Honorary Secretary. 
To this address a reply was received in due order from His Royal 
Highness the Duke of Cornwall and York, through his Honour the 
Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario. 
10. A TRIBUTE To Sir DANIEL WILSON. 
In meeting for the first time in the city of Toronto, the Council 
cannot refrain from referring to the fact that one of the most active 
and earnest founders of the Royal Society was Sir Daniel Wilson, 
for many years president of the great university which has given us 
such admirable facilities on the present occasion. His sympathy with 
the aims of the Society was of that practical character which has 
made it a most useful factor in the intellectual development of 
Canada. We can easily imagine how warm would have been his 
‘greeting to the members of a body of whose success he had never a 
doubt, had death spared him for a few years longer to the Canadian 
people; but though he is no longer with them, the original members 
of the Society, who met him so often, will always have for him a 
tender recollection which is naturally intensified when we meet for 
the first time within the walls of a learned institution over which he 
presided with such signal ability during the best years of a career, 
notable for an industry, a versatility and breadth of thought, which 
made him a powerful factor in the higher education of the Dominion. 
