XCVIII ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
sub-tropical belt of high pressure in corresponding seasons of differ- 
ent years. 
The open meeting of the 16th of April was given up to popular 
demonstrations of subjects relating to the moon. ‘The papers con- 
tributed were by the Rev. Robert Atkinson, Mr. J. Edward Maybee, 
Mr. A. Elvins, and the president, but more particularly by Dr. J. J. 
Wadsworth, M.A., president of the Simcoe Astronomical Society. 
The meeting of the 30th of April was also of a popular character. 
Papers were read by Miss E. A. Dent, on “Caroline Herschel”; by 
Mr. J. R. Collins, on “ Faraday”; by Mr. A. F. Miller, on “ Wollas- 
ton,” and by Dr. A. D. Watson, on “ Olbers.” 
At the meeting of the Society on the 14th of May, Council was 
authorized to purchase from Cooke & Sons, of York, England, a first- 
class four-inch refracting telescope. The secretary read a paper by 
Mr. Joseph Pope, C.M.G., on “ Halley’s Comet,” the next apparition 
of which will occur in 1910. Mr. Harvey also read a paper on “ Great 
Comets.” | 
On the 28th of May, Mr. A. T. DeLury, B.A., Dean of the Uni- 
versity of Toronto and Lecturer in Physics, read a paper on “The 
Shape and Size of the Earth.” 
On the 11th of June, M. Camille Flammarion, of Paris, France; 
M. Maurice Loewy, Director of the Paris Observatory, and John A. 
Brashear, D.Sc., F.R.A.S., of Allegheny, Pa., were elected Honorary 
Fellows of the Society. A special paper on “The Albedo of the 
Moon,” was contributed by Professor H. H. Kimball, associate editor 
of the United States Weather Review. 
On the 25th of June, letters from Dr. J. A. Brashear and Mr. 
W. F. King, Government Astronomer at Ottawa, were read, descrip- 
tive of the Dominion Government Observatory to be erected at the 
capital. The papers of the evening were of a popular character, 
and were contributed by Mr. J. H. Weatherbe, Mr. D. J. Howell, Mr. 
A. Harvey and the Rev. R. Atkinson, on “The Summer Constella- 
tions.” At this meeting the Society adjourned for the summer 
holidays, and arrangements were made for open-air meetings in the 
interests of the Society, the public and the schools, to be held in 
different parts of the city, and work for members going to Muskoka 
and elsewhere was laid out. 
At the meeting on the 17th of September, Mr. J. C. Hamilton, 
M.A., LL.B., read a paper on “The Pleiades in the Classics and 
Mythology.” 
On the 15th of October, Mr. W. B. Musson read a paper on 
“ Stellar Evolution as Indicated by Spectrum Analysis,” special refer- 
