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the grievances complained of. The report of the Commission in four 
volumes has been copied and placed on the shelves. The Calendar 
for Upper Canada contains the correspondence of Sir John Colborne, 
afterwards Lord Seaton, with the Colonial office, during the last period 
in which he held the office of Lieutenant-Governor, and also despatches 
from Sir Francis Bond Head and part of those sent by the Colonial 
office to him in 1836. 
13. A SYSTEM oF TRIANGULATION ALONG THE 98TH MERIDIAN. 
Professor McLeod has again called the attention of the Honorary 
Secretary to a subject worthy of the earnest attention of the Royal 
Society in the following letter which explains itself: 
McGILL UNIVERSITY, MONTREAL. 
MONTREAL, May 16th, 1902. 
Sir J. G. BOURINOT, K.C.M.G., 
Ottawa, Ont. 
DEAR SIR: 
You will remember that Dr. Pritchett, then Superintendent of the Coast 
and Geodetic Survey of the United States, attended a meeting of the Royal 
Society in 1898, for the purpose of calling the attention of the Society to the 
desirability of extending the triangulation along the 98th meridian—which 
was then approaching completion in the United States—northwards through 
Canada. The Mexican Government had at the time undertaken to extend it 
southwards to the Pacific Ocean, and this work is now in progress. 
A Committee of Section III. was appointed for the purpose of urging upon 
the Government the importance of this work, and a memorial was prepared 
and presented to the Governor-General-in-Council, through yourself. So far 
as I am informed, no reply to this memorial has been received by the Royal 
Society or by Section III., and it has occurred to me that possibly you might 
desire to draw attention to the importance of the work in your report, and 
perhaps obtain from the Minister of the Interior any opinion he may have in 
regard to the desirability of carrying it out. In case you desire to make 
some reference to the subject, you will perhaps find my address, as Presi- 
dent of Section III. in 1899, of assistance to you. 
I propose to base upon such report as you may make, a request to Sec- 
tion III. to again draw the attention of the Government to the importance of 
the work. 
I am, 
Yours very truly, 
C. H. McLEop. 
14. ETHNOLOGICAL WORK IN CANADA. 
At the Liverpool meeting of the British Association for the 
Advancement of Science a Committee was nominated for the purpose 
of initiating an ethnological survey of Canada on lines corresponding 
with those already followed by the Committee for the Ethnological 
Survey of the United Kingdom, as well as to continue, as far as 
