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membership and consider whether any member who has failed to attend for three years in succession 

 without presenting a paper, or assigning reasons in writing satisfactory to the Society, shall not be 

 called upon to resign or else give some evidence of his desire to assist in the work of the Society. It 

 is suggested by the Council that each section consider if it has any such cases, and instruct the 

 secretary to notify the indifferent members of the rule, and to express the hope that they will hence- 

 forth identify themselves closely with the labours of the Society. It is also suggested that those 

 gentlemen whose years preclude their attendance should bo placed on the retired list. Active mem- 

 bership is absolutely necessary to the usefulness of a society lilio this. 



VIII. The 'Transactions' at the Chicago Wokld's P''air. 



The Honorary Secretary forwarded to the World's Fair at Chicago, at the request of the com- 

 missioners, a full set, bound in morocco, of the 'Transactions of the Eoyal Society of Canada' as well 

 as a special copy of ' Capo Breton and Its Memorials,' one of the publications of the Society. A 

 medal has been awarded the Society' for the typographical and geneially meritorious character of 

 these works. 



IX. Index. 



It is proposed to add to the twelfth volume an index of all the subjects, as well as of the authors 

 whose names appear in what will then be considered and named the First Series of Transactions, viz., 

 from one to twelve, inclusive. Such an index has now become a necessity to all those who wish from 

 time to time to consult a series which deals with a great vai'iety of subjects, ai-chœologioal, ethnological, 

 historical, literary, and scientific, to which at present reference can be made only with great difficulty 

 and loss of time. 



X. Bibliography. 



During the past year the Honorary Secretary, in accordance with tlie recommendation made in 

 two reports of the Council, mailed circulars to all the Fellows, asking for a complete list of all their 

 published works, memoirs, and essay's, with a view to the printing of a bibliography of the Society. 

 Answers have been received from the greater number of the members and it is only the inditference, 

 or perhaps pressing business, of a very few gentlemen that has prevented the appearance in the last 

 volume of what must prove to be of much interest and value to all engaged in scientific, historical or 

 literary pursuits. At the present time, there is no work which gives the information which will be 

 contained in the proposed bibliography. Under these circumstances it is hoped that those membei-s 

 who have not yet complied with the circular in question will lose no time in sending the necessary 

 information to the Honorary Secretary, who proposes to publish the notes in the forthcoming volume. 

 It is also suggested that every member should make his answer as complete as possible, and not 

 throw upon the Secretary the responsibility and labour of searching for information when it can be 

 most easily and accurately given bj' the author himself 



XI. Longitude of Montreal. 



The Secretary has received the following communication from Professor McLeod on a subject 

 of interest to the Society : 



" McGiLL College Observatory, Montreal, May IGth, 1894. 

 "Dr.J. G. Bourinot, C.M.G. 



"Dear Sir, — In reply to your inquirj' as to the ))rogress of the determination ol the longitude of 

 Montreal, I beg to slate that the first reduction of the clock errors, depending upon preliminary 

 values of star places as obtained from various catalogues, was completed in .June last. The resulting 

 clock errors together with all the results of clock comparisons were immediately forwarded to the 



