XCVI ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
XVil.— From The Toronto Astronomical Society, through 
Mr. A. Harvey. 
The following are the names of the officers of the Society for 
the year 1901: — 
Honorary President—The Hon. Richard Harcourt, M.A., K.C., 
M.P.P., Minister of Education, Ontario. 
President—G. E. Lumsden, F.R.A.S., 57 Elm Avenue, Rosedale, 
Toronto. 
ist Vice-President—R. F. Stupart, F.R.S.C., Director of the 
Toronto Magnetic Observatory, and Superintendent of the Meteor- 
ological Service of Canada. 
2nd Vice-President—C. A. Chant, M.A. (Tor.), Ph.D. (Har.), 
Lecturer in Physics, University of Toronto. 
Treasurer—C. P. Sparling, 13 Isabella Street, Toronto. 
Corresponding Secretary—W. Balfour Musson, 37 Yonge Street, 
Toronto. 
Recorder—J. E. Maybee, M.E., 103 Bay Street, Toronto. 
Librarian—Z. M. Collins, 172 Borden Street, Toronto. 
Assistant Librarian—<A. Elvins, 101 Willcocks Street, Toronto. 
Curator—D. J. Howell, Lambton Park. 
Other Members of Council—Honoris Causa: A. Elvins, past 
president; L. W. Smith, D.C.L., K.C., past president; J. A. Paterson, 
M.A., past president; Arthur Harvey, F.R.S.C., past president. 
Elected: Rev. R. Atkinson, A. F. Miller, Capt. J. G. Ridout. 
Patron of Astronomy—Larratt W. Smith, D.C.L., K.C., etc. 
The eleventh annual meeting of the Society was held on the 
10th of January, 1901, in the Society’s rooms, at the Canadian Insti- 
tute, and was largely attended, and the president, Mr. G. E. Lumsden, 
read the annual address, entitled “ The Threshold of a New Century.” 
Mr. Larratt William Smith, K.C., D.C.L., past president of the Soci- 
ety, presented to it his fine three-inch refracting telescope. After 
the reading of the president’s address, the rooms of the Society were 
thrown open, and the new electric-lantern was used to project on the 
sereen slides made from the admirable Paris photographs of the 
moon, the originals of which were displayed in the library. 
At the meeting on the 22nd of January, an interesting paper 
was read by Mr. Arthur Harvey, F.R.S.C., past president, on “The 
Sun,” in the course of which he referred to the photospheric surface 
ot the sun, disturbed as it sometimes is by spots, facule and promin- 
ences, and held that spots ought to be considered as an effect of some 
interior change. He developed the theory announced in previous 
papers, that the electric energy of the sun was the cause of changes 
