II ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
Apologies were received from Dr. Ami, Dr. Burgess, Dr. Gilpin, 
Dr. Hay, Monsignor Laflamme, Dr. MacKay, Dr. Matthew, Dr. Poole. 
Mr. J. H. Coyne, Col. Cruikshank and Col. Wood being newly 
elected Fellows, were presented to the President, and took their seats. 
The Honorary Secretary then read the following: 
REPORT OF COUNCIL, 1907. 
The Council of the Royal Society of Canada have the honour to 
present their annual report, as follows :— 
1.—PRINTING oF TRANSACTIONS. 
The “ Proceedings and Transactions ” for 1906 have been published, 
and make a volume of 1,180 pages, containing 231 illustrations and 
maps. Over 7,000 copies of separates have been distributed to Fellows 
of the Society. The volume is much larger than usual and contains 
several very important papers. The index mentioned in our last report 
as in preparation by Mr. Benjamin Sulte is now nearly complete and 
will be the twenty-fifth volume of the Transactions, thus making a 
fitting close in the shape of a complete index by name and subject of 
the whole twenty-four volumes issued by the Royal Society of Canada 
from the beginning. This index will be of great value to the Fellows 
of the Society by rendering the whole series of volumes available for 
ready reference. It will form part of the issue for the present year, 
which will thus consist of three volumes, viz., the volume of 1,180 pages 
now complete, this index, which will be issued separately, and Dr. 
Dionne’s Inventaire chronologique des Livres, Brochures, Journaux, 
et Revues publiés en langue anglaise dans la Province de Québec de 
1764 à 1906, which will also be issued separately. 
Every effort has been put forth by the editor of the Transactions to 
hurry forward the completion of the volume, but owing to the delay 
which in some cases has taken place in the return of proofs by authors 
of papers and other hindrances, the volume has only just been com- 
pleted in time for this meeting. The Council would again urgently 
press upon Fellows the importance of preparing their papers in a 
complete form for publication as much as possible at the time of 
the meetings when they are to be read, or at the earliest possible date 
afterwards. The change in the fiscal year from July 1st to April 1st 
now yenders the earlier preparation of the Volume of Transactions 
imperative. Properly speaking, the completed volume should be dis- 
tributed to Members of Parliament before the end of the Session, ani 
this necessarily implies that the papers must be put into the hands of 
the editor earlier. The volume can easily be issued at a much earlier 
date if the Fellows of the Society will help as suggested. 
