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We liavc caused Professor Gregor's paper to ])e printed with this 

 year's Transactions, and we leave to our successors the printing of Pro- 

 fessor de Kastncr's lecture, which has met with a success that it thor- 

 oughly deserved. 



We are in a position to fulfil the promise made last year of resum- 

 ing, though in a feeble manner, the publication of the Transactions of 

 the society, with the hope that in the future we may be able to put 

 forth, as in the past, some literary or historical documents of interest 

 to the people of Canada. 



The President has recently written and published a work entitled 

 " La Vie do Joseph François Perrault." M. Perrault was one of the 

 pioneers of education in this province, and one of the founders of the 

 Literary and Historical Society of Quebec. This biography is con- 

 nected with primary education in this province, and therefore has im- 

 mediate relation with the objects which this society was intended to 

 promote. The author has, with great liberality, furnished a sufficient 

 number of copies of the work to be supplied to kindred associations in 

 this and other countries, as a return for the customary exchanges. The 

 council desires to express its sincere gratitude for this act of gener- 

 osity on the part of the President. 



Our rooms have been visited during the past year by many strangers 

 and men of literary acquirements. 



Our collection of souvenirs of olden times has been augmented 

 by a donation of the much appreciated statue of General Wolfe, which, 

 after its divers wanderings, will find a suitable shelter and rest in our 

 rooms. 



We renew and offer the thanks of our institution to C. F. Sise, 

 Esq., as President of the Bell Telephone Company of Canada, Mont- 

 real, for this relic of the past. 



The Council has to mourn the loss by death of many of its mem- 

 bers during the past year, viz., Messrs. W. E. Duggan, J. S. Fry, T. D. 

 Tims, P. IL Smith and Pobert Hamilton. 



AVe regret to announce that we have received the resignation of 

 Messrs. J. E. Livernois, Théophile Ledroit and Edmond Joly de 

 Lotbinière. 



Those who have left the city and ceased to be members are: Pev. 

 Pénc Casgrain, Messrs. W. M. Macpherson, Robert MeCord, E. Racey, 

 L. R. Ross, Whitehead and J. G. Golden, 



The new members elected are : — Messrs. L G. Golden, Arch. 

 Foulds, Wm. Laurie and Thomas Brodie. 



We have much pleasure in announcing that, through persistent 

 efforts, a number of manuscript documents which had been, at the 



