X EOYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA. 



IS-jS— Executive Commissioner for Paris Exhibition and member of International Jury for Architec- 

 ture. Created C.M.G. and appointed Officer of Legion of Honor. 



1887 — President of Canadian Societ}' of Civil Engineers. 



1888— President of American Institute of Civil Engineers. 



Is also a member of the Institute of Civil Enginecr.s, London. Has constructed waterworks for the 

 Citiesof Montreal, Hamilton and Ottawa, and been largely engaged in harbour and bridge 

 engineering, and was sometime Chief Engineer of EaiUvays in Upper and Lower Canada. 



Results of the Voting. 



Subsequently a meeting of the Council was duly held, and the votes counted, wilh tlio following 

 result, as set forth in the second circular mailed to the mcmbcrsof the Societj' at large: — 



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" SiB^ — I iiavc the honour to inform you that the three following gentlemen have received th 

 two-thirds vote necessary to elect them to fill the three vacancies in Section II: — 



Mr. Charles Mair 15 votes. 



Mr. Horatio Hale 14^ '' 



Mr. trEORGE Patterson 12 " 



"The Council therefore recommend that these three gentlemen be elected to fill the vacancies in 

 question. 



" No election has been made to Section III under the Eule." 



It is now the duty of the Council simplj' to report to the Society at largo the action they have 

 taken in compliance with the Eulcs. 



Imperial Scientific Affiliation. 



The Council deem it advisable to direct your attention to a subject of considerable iraj)ortaiicc, 

 respecting which the Honorary Secretary has received communications from Mr. Maefarlane and 

 other members. It will be remembered that a Committee was appointed in 1887 to consider proposals 

 for an Imperial Union of Geological Surveys and Societies. The Council would now call upon the 

 Society to consider the report which the Committee made on the subject, and the circumstances which 

 seem to be fjxvorable to a certain coui-se of action by the Eoyal Society of Canada in the immediate 

 future as regards this matter. Several membei's of the Society objected to the recommendation of 

 the Committee, at the time it was made, for the reason that it threatened to interfere somewhat 

 with the meeting of the International Geological Congress, and because it was inconsistent witii the 

 idea of scientific federation to limit its scope to Geologj'. The circumstances arc now changed. The 

 Geological Congress met last year in London, and does not come together again until 1801, in 

 Philadelphia, and, further, one of the results of the celebration of Her Majesty's Jubilee has been the 

 establishment of the Imperial Institute, the object of which i» " to illustrate the resources and 

 capabilities of every section of Her Majesty's Dominions," and to " supply a foundation for that 

 " scientific organization of our industries which the changed conditions of the times render indis- 

 pensable to their prosperity." A building for the Institute is now in couise of erection in London 

 which will, no doubt, be well utilized for its purposes. 



Mr. Maefarlane i-eprcsents to the Council that, under these circumstances, it wnuld seem well for 

 the Eoyal Society of Canada to suggest to the manager.s of the Impérial Institute that the following 

 would be advantageous methods of promoting its objects : — 



