PROCEEDINGS FOR 1899 LXXXVII 



These issues are classified as follows : — • 



History and Biography 207 



Travels 126 



Fiction 7,533 



Poetry 31 



Philosophy and General LiteTature 140 



Theology 5 



Chemistry and Natural History 13 



Astronomy and Mathematics 71 



Bonnd Magazines 1,218 



Unbound Magazines 797 



The reading room is supplied with the leading newspapers, and 

 the best serial literature. It is greatly valued by a large number of 

 readers, and has been much used during the year. The expenditure 

 upon it, $168.40, is liberal in view of the limited pecuniary resources 

 at the society's command. The Literary and Scientific Society as the 

 oldest society in the capital still continues one ,of the most active and 

 valuable as an educational and elevating force in the community. 



The active members number 312, 36 new members have been ad- 

 mitted and 28 members have withdrawn their names. 



The receipts, including the Ontario Government grant of $400, 

 were $11^2.55 ; the balance on hand being $25.53. 



At the recent annual meeting the following officers were elected 

 for the year 1899-1900 :— 



President — Professor E. E. Prince. 

 1st Vice-President — !Mr. W. D. LeSueur. 

 2nd Vice-President — Mr. Charles Morse. 

 Treasurer — Mr. A. H. ^^^litcher. 

 Librarian — Mr. Otto J. Klotz. 

 Secretary — Mr. H. J. Bronskill. 

 Curator — Mr. Geo. P. Woolcombe. 



Council — Mr. J. C. Glashan, Mr. J. M. Macoun, Mr, J. F. Jemmett. 

 The new council 'and officers have before them the task of adopt- 

 ing such a policy as will still more largely enlist the' sympathy and 

 support of the public in the future than in the past. The library and 

 reading room and the publication of transactions will, there can be no 

 doubt, ensure for the society an important place in the educational 

 organization of the day. They fill a place and perform a work that 

 would otherwise remain unfilled and undone, bitt there are other 

 avenues of educational and elevating usefulness which remain to be 

 taken up the coming season of the society. 



Proc, 1809. V. 



