PROCEEDINGS FOR 1899 XLI 



this means the working and aim of the U. E. Loyalist associations 

 throughout Canada will be made knov/n to descendants of U.E. Loyalists 

 who may now be scattered in many remote parts of the habitable globe. 



The first volume of " Annual Transactions " was issued in Decem- 

 ber, 1898, presenting the papers read at the meetings to all members. 



On December 16th, being the first occasion of !a visit to Toronto 

 by His Excellency the Governor- General of the Dominion of Canada, 

 and the Countess of Minto, who had previously accepted honorary 

 membership in the association in most gracious terms, the President, 

 Mr. H. H. Cook, was received by their Excellencies 'at Government 

 House. They were also pleased to inscribe their autographs in the roll 

 book of the association. 



The papers read for the year are as follow : — 



" Some Loyalist Homes," " Our Eirst Excursion," by Mrs. Forsyth 

 Gilant. 



" Some Incidents in the Life of an early settler in the Niagara 

 Peninsula," by Surgeon-Major Keefer. 



" Memoir of Captain Samuel Anderson," by Mrs. Eowe. 



" Sketch of the life of the Hon. Henry Buttan," by the Rev. C. E. 

 Thomson. 



" Char^acter of the United Empire Loyalists and their place in Cana- 

 dian History," by the Hon. the Minister of Education, Dr. G. W. Eoss. 



" Sketch of the Secord family, 1775 to 1866," by Mrs. Dunn. 



II. — From Tlie Natural History Society of Montreal, through 

 Professor Wesley Mills, Ph.D. 



The Natural History Society of Montreal has the honour of sub- 

 mitting to the Royal Society of Canada the following report : — 



The work of the last year just closing has been of a very encouraging 

 character. The meetings have been well attended and the number of 

 persons who have visited the museum was nearly double that of the 

 previous year. This is due to the fact that the museum is now open 

 free on Wednesday afternoons as well as on Saturday. 



An endowment fund has been initiated, which we hope will attain 

 such proportions as to enable the society to throw open its museum 

 free daily, to obtain specimens, to provide additional lectures during 

 the winter, and also to purchase new books for the library. In this 

 conne'ction I may state that the society is indebted to Mr. E. T. Cham- 

 bers, librarian, for the work now in progress in the construction of a 

 catalogue of modern type which will make the library more useful. 



