EOYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA. 



PROOEEDIlSrGS FOR 1897. 

 SIXTEENTH GENERAL MEETING. 



SESSION I. (June 21st.) 



The Eoyal Society held its sixteenth general meeting in the Chamber 

 of the Legislative Council of the Legislature of Nova Scotia, in the city 

 of Halifax, on Monday, June 2l8t. The President, His Grace Archbishop 

 O'Brien, took the chair at 11.30 a.m., and formally called the meeting to 

 order. 



In the absence of Dr. Bourinot, Dr. Stewart, F.E.G.S., acted as 

 Secretary, and called the roll of Fellows, of whom the following answered 

 to their names : 



List of Members Present. 



President, Archbishop O'Brien. 



Yice-President, Hon. F. G. Marchand. 



Honorary Treasurer, Dr. Fletcher, 



Section I.— Abbé Gosselin, Sir James LeMoine, J. Edmond Eoy, 

 Benjamin Suite. 



Section IF.— D. Brymner, W. W. Campbell, S. E. Dawson, Yery 

 Eev. G. M. Grant, A. Lampman, W. Kingsford, Eev. G. Patterson, G. 

 Stewart. 



Section III.— C. Baillairgé, H. T. Bovey, N. T. Dupuis, Sir S. 

 Fleming, A. Johnson, T. C. Keefer, J. G. MacGregor, C. H. McLeod. 



Section IV.— L. W. Bailey, T. J. Burgess, G. M. Dawson, E. W. 

 Ells, J. Fowler, E. Gilpin, G. U. Hay, G. F. Matthew, A. H. Mackay, 

 W. Saunders, A. E. C. Selwyn, J. F. Whiteaves. 



