PROCEEDINGS FOR 1907 XIII 
changes in the Rules of the Society, should be referred to a special 
committee to be appointed at this session for the consideration of the 
whole question of the Rules of the Society. 
The following were nominated by the President as a Special Com- 
mittee to consider the Rules of the Society and report upon any amend- 
ments which may seem to be necessary. 
Sir Sandford Fleming, Dr. S. E. Dawson, Dr. Deville, Prof. Mac- 
allum, Dr. J. E. Roy, Mr. Lambe, Dr. Wilfred Campbell, and Mr. Sulte. 
Delegates of affiliated societies were then called upon for their 
Reports. These will be found printed in full in Appendix F. 
At noon the Society adjourned to enable the Sections to organize 
in their respective rooms. 
AFTERNOON SESSION. (Tuesday, May 14th.) 
The Society re-assembled in General Session at 2.30 p.m. 
The presentation of Reports from Delegates of Societies was pro- 
ceeded with and required the whole time of the session. (Appendix F.) 
The Society adjourned at 3.30 p.m. 
EVENING SESSION. (Tuesday, May 14th.) 
At 8 p.m. the President delivered his Presidential Address in 
the large hall of the Normal School. Subject: “Agricultural Pro- 
gress.” (Appendix A.) 
SESSION II. (Wednesday, May 15th.) 
The Society re-assembled in General Session at 11.30 a.m. 
Further Reports from Delegates of Societies were read. 
A motion by the Rey. Frederick Scott, seconded by Prof. W. Lash 
Miller, relating to proposed steps to be taken by the Society to urge 
upon the various Provincial Boards of Education, the need of cultivat- 
ing in schools the study of literature, was put to the Society and 
brought about a long discussion. 
It was finally moved by Prof. Cox, seconded by Dr. S. E. Dawson: 
That the question be not now put.—Carried. 
The Secretary of Section I then presented the following: 
RAPPORT DE LA SECTION I. 
La section a l’honneur de soumettre le procès-verbal de ses délibé- 
rations. 
Etaient présents: M. l’abbé Camille Roy, président; M. Errol 
Bouchette, secrétaire; MM. Benjamin Sulte, J.-Edmond Roy et Adolphe 
Poisson. 
