LXXXVIII ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



of reserving in any government building, hereafter erected at Ottawa, 

 adequate accommodation for the storing and preservation of its archives." 

 (On motion of Sir James LeMoine, seconded by Mr. Suite.) 



The following notices of motions, to be considered at the next 

 general meeting, were submitted by Professor J. G-. MacGregor : 



(1) That Eule 6 be amended by inserting after the words " who 

 ehall make a record of them," the following sentence: " Such nomina- 

 tion papers shall contain a list of the original works or memoirs pub- 

 lished by candidates with sufficient information as to dates and places of 

 publication to enable members readily to obtain access to them, as well 

 as a statement of other services rendered to literature or science." 



(2) That Eule 6 be amended by striking out the sentence begin- 

 ning : '' When the vacancy occurs " and ending : " sej)arate vote for each 

 vacancy," and substituting therefor the following : 



"When one or more vacancies occur, the honorary secretary shall 

 notify the members of the section in which they have taken place. At 

 the end of at least six weeks from the date of such notification, he shall 

 transmit to each of such members a voting paper or list of the candi- 

 dates nominated, together with copies of the nomination papers and a 

 copy of this rule. Each member who wishes to take part in the election 

 shall strike out from said list the names of candidates whom he may not 

 consider qualified for fellowship in the society ; he shall also insert in 

 said list the numeral 1 opposite the name of the candidate whom he 

 prefers to all others ; he shall similarly insert the numerals 2, 3, 4, etc., 

 opposite the names of the other candidates, so as to indicate the order in 

 which they stand in his opinion as candidates for fellowship ; and he 

 shall finally send the voting paper tilled up in this way and signed by 

 himself to the honorary secretary, so that it may reach the hon. secre- 

 tary within six weeks from the date at which said paper was trans- 

 mitted to said member by the hon. secretary. The voting papers shall 

 be submitted by the hon. secretary to a committee of scrutineers ap- 

 pointed by the president. They shall first exclude from candidature all 

 candidates whose names have been stricken out from the list by one- 

 third or more of the members of the section, and they shall next deter- 

 mine from the voting papers what the result of the vote of the section 

 is in the case of all combinations of the remaining candidates taken two 

 together. If any candidate is thus shown to be preferred to all other 

 candidates, i. e., to have gained a majority of the votes cast over each of 

 the other candidates, he is thereby elected to the fii-st vacanc}' ; if any 

 one of the remaining candidates is thus shown to be preferred to all the 

 other remaining candidates, he is thereby elected to the second vacancy ; 

 and so on, until all the vacancies are filled. If at any stage any two or 

 more of the candidates remaining at that stage are shown to be preferred 

 to the others, while the voting papers do not show which of these two 



