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men, able, energetic and willing to advance scientific discovery, if 
adequate and congenial means for so doing be provided. 
The Canadian Government has generously provided the oppor- 
tunity and the means, and it is open to qualified naturalists without fee 
or charge to take full advantage of the resources of the marine biologi- 
cal station. The institution is now on a permanent basis, and it is not 
too much to anticipate that the publications issued from this biological 
station year by year will be of the highest value to the Dominion and 
of the greatest importance to the scientific world generally. 
19. MonuMENT TO LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR SIMCOE. 
The Honorary Secretary has received the following letter from the 
Reverend Charles E. Thomson, M.A., Chairman of the Committee 
entrusted with the duty of erecting a monument to the first Lieutenant- 
Governor of Upper Canada. The Royal Society entertain the hope that 
the Canadian Government will assist a project so worthy of the support 
of all patriotic Canadians. 
CARLTON WEST, ONT., April 25th, 1902. 
My DEAR SIR JOHN: 
The monument to Col. John Graves Simcoe, political founder 
of Upper Canada, is so far completed that the clay model has been inspected 
and approved by the Committee, and also by a select Committee of the Guild 
of Civic Art, Toronto, comprising Frank Darling, Wyley Green, and B. E. 
Walker, of the Bank of Commerce. I am sorry to say that the statue, which 
is about nine feet high, will have to be cast in the United States. I think we 
ought to be able to do it in Canada. 
The total cost, including a suitable pedestal, is estimated at about $5,500; 
it may be a trifle more or less. The city of Toronto has subscribed and paid 
$1,000, the Provincial Government has given a site near the south-east corner 
of the Parliament building, about the best site except where Sir John A. 
Macdonald is right in front, and has also subscribed $3,000, which we hope to 
get as required, so soon as we have made provision for the pedestal. We 
expect the $4,000 will pay for the statue itself, and are now wanting about 
$1,500 for the pedestal and erection of the statue. Already $250 has been 
guaranteed by one person in Toronto, if we can get the rest. We venture to 
hope that the Government of Canada will help us in this matter, as I under- 
stand it helped Montreal and the province of Quebec by contributing liber- 
ally to the Maisonneuve Monument. 
My special object in writing to you is to ask you if you can find the 
record of this contribution to the Maisonneuve Monument, and if you will 
kindly send me a memorandum of it. 
As the Royal Society is to meet in Toronto this year, I trust we may have 
the pleasure of seeing and hearing you. The U.E. Loyalist Association, I am 
happy to say, seems to be gaining ground, and in the best way, namely, by 
attracting the attention of people in various districts of the province, and 
