XXXIV EOYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA. 



SESSION III. {May Qth.) 



The members of the Society assembled at 10 o'clock a.m., and the President called the meeting 

 to order. 



Eeports from Affiliated Societies (Continued.') 

 The Societies which had not hitherto reported, presented the following rejiorts: — 



X. — Pi'om The Literary and Historical Society of Qvehec, through Mi-. William Wood. 



The report which I have the honor to submit this year is more encoaraging than that of last 

 year. 



The Provincial Government has again given an annual grant, this time of $500, which enables 

 the Society to fulfil one of its most important functions, the publication of its Transactions and of 

 original documents. 



The membership has been slightly iucreased. The active membership is 190. llis Excellency 

 the Governor-General has accepted the patronship of the Society. 



The Librarian's report shows an increase of 451 volumes during 1888. Among the most valuable 

 of these are the reports of the Government Geological and Archaîlogical Surveys of India, which were 

 obtained through the kindness of the Marquis of Dutterin. Thirty-eight volumes of MSS. were 

 delivered to the Provincial Government, the Society being satisfied that it was only the custodian, 

 not the owner of them. There were among them ten volumes of original papers — matières crimin- 

 elles, civiles, de police, de voieries— extending from 16G5 to 1759. The total number of volumes in 

 the library at present is about 15,000, of which about 2,000 were taken out in the year. 



During the winter there were five lectm-es delivered to very fair- audiences : — 



1. " The Merchant of Venice," by the Very Eev. Dean Norman, D.D., D.C.L. 



2. Pre-Columbian Discoveries of America, by J. E. Prower. 



3. .John Keats, by William Wood. 



4. Imperial Federation, by Casimir Dickson. 



5. The Moon and the Weather, by W. A. Ashe, F.E.A.S. 



At the Annual Meeting in January of this year, the following were elected to office : — 



President George Stewart, D.C.L., D.Lit., F.E.G.S., F.E.S.C, LL.D. 



r C. Tessier. 



W. Hossack. 



Vice-Presidents ^ t sr tt th. r. xixito 



J. M. Harper, Ph.D., F.E.I.S. 



[ Dean Norman, D.D., D.C.L. 



Treasurer E. Pope. 



Librarian F. C. Wurtele. 



Eecording Secretary J. E. Prower. 



Corresponding Secretary W. A. Ashe, F.E.A.S. 



Council Secretary A. Eobertson. 



Curator of Museum W.Clint. 



Curator of Apparatus William Wood. 



( J. M. LeMoiae. 



Additional Members of Council 



Campbell. 

 •jj. M. Price. 

 P. Johnson. 



