XCIV ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
Committees. 
Of the work of the committees appointed by the Society, the most 
interesting to the Royal Society will undoubtedly be that of the Archæo- 
logical and Scientific and the Literature and Publication Committees. 
The Archeological and Scientific Committee—Chairman, Dr. J. G. 
Laird—has had its patience sorely tried in cataloguing its specimens 
and placing them in cases so as to be seen to most advantage in the 
limited space allotted to its department; and indeed, the work of increas- 
ing the collection has almost been brought to a standstill for want of 
sufficient room. Nevertheless, during the last three years quite a num- 
ber of specimens of Indian workmanship have been acquired and a col- 
lection of valuable coins and other curios has been placed with the 
Society as a permanent loan by Mr. Basil Hamilton. 
The important scientific collection of the Society has recently been 
given space in the new university building, where it can be exhibited to 
greater advantage than in the Society’s present quarters. 
The Literature Committee—Chairman, Prof. A. B. Baird—has 
been diligent in acquiring books, rare or out of print on North-west 
subjects, and the Society’s collection of such works is now unique. 
Tn 1899 there was completed a work commenced some years before, 
viz. : the collecting, classifying and binding of 100 volumes of pamphlets 
and typical Western newspapers. These are indexed and easy of refer- 
ence. The most important sets purchased since 1898 were: Bancroft’s 
History of the Pacific Coast States, 39 vols.; the new translation of the 
Jesuit Relations, 134 vols.; The Frontenac Edition of Parkman’s Work:, 
with the Life of Parkman, 17 vols.; Bailey’s Cyclopedia of Horticul- 
ture, and the completion of Leslie Stephen’s Biographical Dictionary, 
now 73 vols. 
Exchanges. 
The Society at present receives exchanges of magazines and news- 
papers amounting to 107; and historical and scientific exchanges of 
other societies, 167. 
Obituary. 
The Society has to record with sorrow the loss by death during these 
years of the following members :— 
Honorary Members—Sir Wm. Dawson, C.M.G., and, quite recently, 
the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava, and the Very Rev. Principal Grant, 
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