X ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



It is earnestly to be hoped that any societies that may fail to report 

 to the present meeting will do so before the Transactions go to the 

 printers, and prevent any break in the publication of their proceedings. 



8. Bibliography. 



As the few copies issued two years ago of the Bibliography of the 

 Eoyal Society are already exhausted, and there is now a constant 

 demand for an edition distinct from the publication in the twelfth 

 volume, the Honorary Secretary proposes, as soon as possible, to print 

 this viseful information in octavo form up to the latest date possible, 

 possibly ibr the third and certainly for the fourth volume. Members 

 will therefore revise the list of publications as it appears in the twelfth 

 volume and send it to the Honorary Secretary by the beginning of 1898. 

 They are also requested to follow the plan of publication, as it appears- 

 already in print, and so save the Secrctar}^ the gi'eat labour he had in 

 1893, in re writing in not a few cases the lists sent to him by members. 



It has always been the object of the society to make its proceedings, 

 as far as practicable, a complete summary of all the scientific and liter- 

 ary work of Canadian societies. In this way, much interesting and 

 important information is given to students in other countries of the 

 work that is being done in various departments of scientific and histori- 

 cal investigation throughout Canada. 



In the same connection, the council may again call attention to the 

 suggestion that was made in their report of 1894, and generally approved 

 at the general meeting of that year: that one of the members of each 

 section should be charged with the preparation of a bibliography of all 

 important books and essays that may yearly appear in Canada and are 

 not printed by societies. To each title might be added a short abstract 

 and critical appreciation of the book or essay. In this way the society's 

 Transactions will be made a still more useful book of reference for the 

 current literature of Canada. 



9. Election of î^Tew Members. 



During the past year the members of section three were called upon 

 to elect an additional Fellow, under the rule allowing the increase of the 

 members of a section to twenty-five persons in all. 



Piofessor Cox, of McGill University, who has on more than one 

 occasion contributed to the work of the Royal Society, notably his 

 popular lecture on " Unsolved Problems in the Manufacture of Light," 

 has received a majority of votes, and it is well for the society to ratify 

 this election. 



In this place, the council may call attention to the fact that not 

 only are there two vacancies in sections one and four, caused by the 

 decease of M. Faucher de Saint-Maurice and Mr. Hale, but two gentle- 



