ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA. 





PROCEEDINGS KOR 1892. 



ELEVENTH GENERAL MEETING, MAY, 1892, 



SESSION I. {May Slsf.) 



The Eoyal Society of Canada held its eleventh general meeting in the committee rooms of the 

 House of Commons, in the Parliament Buildings at Ottawa, on Tuesday, May 31st. The President, 

 Reverend Abbé Laflamnie, took the chair at 10 o'clock a.m., and formally called the meeting to order. 



The Acting Secretary, Mr. James Fletcher, in the regretted absence of the Hon. Secretary, Mr. 

 G. C. Hoffmann, read the roll of members, and the following answered to their names : — 



List op Members Present. 



The President, Eev. Abbé Laflamme. 



The Vice-President, Dr. J. George Bourinot, C.M.G. 



Section I. — L'Abbé Casgrain, A. D. DeCelles, J. M. LeMoine, Joseph Marmotte, Joseph E. Eoy, 

 B. Suite, J. Tassé. 



Section II. — Very Rev. Principal G. M. Grant, W. Kingsford, George Murray, Rev. George 

 Patterson, John Reade, George Stewart, Jr., Sir Daniel Wilson. 



Section III.— H. T. Bovey, E. J. Chapman, E. Deville, AV. H. Ellis, Sandford Fleming, C.M.G., 

 G. P. Girdwood, F. N. Gisborne, T. C. Keefer, C.M.G., T. Macfarlane, C. Carpmael. 



Section IV.— L. W. Bailey, Eobt. Bell, Sir William Dawson, C.M.G., James Fletcher, James 

 Fowler, Sir J. A. Grant, K.C.M.G., George Lawson, John Macoun, G. F. Matthew, T. Wesley Mills, 

 D. P. Penhallow, W, Saunders, A. R. C. Selwyn, C.M.G., J. F. Whiteaves. 



The Acting Secretary then read the following 



Report of Council. 



The Council have the honour to submit their eleventh annual report. 



The Council regret to have to make the announcement of the decease of three of the members of 

 the Society since their last meeting in Montreal. Dr. Thomas Sterry Hunt was for years one of the 



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