XCIV ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
before the French section of the Royal Society, l’Habitation de Samos, 
etc., et la tentative manquée de Bougainville pour prêter main-forte à 
Montcalm à la journée du 13 septembre 1759. 
This paper was favourably received by your Society, and is pub- 
lished in the last volume of its Transactions. 
In our last year’s report we have strongly recommended to our 
members the importance and necessity of keeping the original purpose 
and functions of our society constantly before us. Our charter from 
his late Majesty William IV, plainly lays down our duty, namely: 
to search for, procure and publish documents, papers and monographs 
on the Natural, Civil and Literary History of British North America, 
from which the public may benefit. And we hope that more of our 
members will devote their talent and activity to so good a cause; 
thereby following the steps of our predecessors, who have given a wide 
and honourable prestige to our institution by their worthy and useful 
publications, which prestige we are bound in duty and in honour to 
maintain. 
We regret that there was only one lecture given last year under 
the auspices of the society. That one, however, was of capital impor- 
. tance and dealt with an original subject in a very interesting and enter- 
taining manner. It was Colonel Hubert Neilson’s paper on Slavery 
in Canada, and it has been published by the society and is now in the 
hands of the members. 
We had the pleasure of welcoming to Quebec many members of the 
Fifteenth International Congress of Americanists last September Every 
member of the Congress was offered the hospitality of our rooms, and 
many, we are glad to say, availed themselves of this privilege and 
returned us thanks for it. 
In tendering our acknowledgment and gratitude to the Governors 
of Morrin College and Dr. Douglass for a continuance of their grant 
and past favours, we called the attention of our members to the fact 
that the Provincial Government granted us $200 in aid of, the publica- 
tion of the original documents of 1775-6. 
A suitable vote of thanks was conveyed to the Prime Minister, 
the Honourable Mr. Gouin, for his timely help and his appreciation of 
our work. 
It is not out of place to remember that formerly the Legislature 
of Quebec voted an annual subsidy to the society. This subsidy, at 
first $1,000, was reduced to $750, then to $500,— and some twenty years 
ago was altogether dropped. 
We may venture the claim that it is universally acknowledged, both 
at home and abroad, that these subsidies were always so applied as to 
