LXXXII EOYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



The report of the foregoing committee was unanimously adopted, 

 and the gentlemen named therein Avere declared duly elected officers of 

 the society for 1897-98. 



Eeports of Sections. 



The four sections then made their usual reports, which are as fol- 

 low : 



Rapport de la Section I. 



La section I était composée de MM. Gosselin, Marchand, LeMoine, 

 Eoy, Suite, et des délégués E.-P. Duclos (Cercle littéraire de Montréal) et 

 N-N. Ollivier (Institut Canadien de Québec). 



Travaux lus et approvivés pour le prochain volume : M. l'abbé Gros- 

 selin : Hommage à la mémoire de feu Narcisse Faucher de Saint-Maurice. 



M. JRoy, Le Roy de la Pothe?'ie, auteur de l'Histoire de l'Amérique 

 Sej)tentrionale. 



M. l'abbé Gosselin, Le Père de Bomiécamp. 



M. Léon Gérin, 1", L'Habitant de Saint-Justin ; 2°, L'Ancêtre de 

 l'Habitant. 



Placide P. Gaudet, 1°, Les curés de Fort-Royal, 1676-1755; 2°, Le 

 Borgne de Relleisle, famille acadienne. 



M. Suite, 1°, La guerre des Loquois, 164.7-1664.; 2", Extraits his- 

 toriques des lettres de la Mère de V Incarnation. 



Les otïîciers élus pour Ja section sont : Jos.-Edmond Eoy, président ; 



A.-D. DeCelles, vice-président ; Benjamin Suite, secrétaire. 



A. H. Gosselin, 



Président. 

 Benjamin Sulte, 



Secrétaire. 



Report of Section II. 



The following papers were read before the section : 



1. — " Canada during the Victorian Era : Sixty Years of Progress," 



by Dr. Bourinot, C.M.G. 



Illustrated by engravings of important epochs of Canadian histor}'. 

 2. — " Historical and Miscellaneous Literature in the Province of 



Quebec, 1764-1830," by Mr. Benjamin Suite. 



Here are mentioned the first newspapers and what they did ; the old libraries 

 then in existence amongst us ; the books published, also pamphlets, and why ; the 

 literary circles or societies formed from time to time; the amateur theatricals; 

 first attempts to write a history of Canada— showing altogether many more essays 

 in the field of literature and studies than we generally attribute to that period. 



3. — " Notes on the Cosmogony and History of the Squamish Lidians 

 of British Columbia," by Professor Charles Hill-Tout, of Buekland Col- 

 lege, Vancouver, B.C. Presented by Dr. G. M. Dawson, F.E.S. 



