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Few can understand the length of time and the amount of patient 

 labour involved in such a work as this. 



In science the division of labour, commenced last year, has been 

 carried on. Dr. Whiteaves has continued his Bibliography of Canadian 

 Zoolog}' — excepting Entomology — and the Rev. Dr. Bethune has com- 

 pleted the subject by a continuation of his Bibliography of Entomology. 

 Dr. Ami has continued his work on Canadian publications relating to 

 Geology and Palaeontology, and Dr. A. H. MacKay has done the same 

 for Botanical science. The mathematical and physical sciences have 

 not been touched at yet; nor has a commencement been made with the 

 French literature of Canada. The Council hope that the first section 

 will do something to bring annually under general notice the large 

 mass of literature which, year after year, is published in Canada 'and 

 not known as widely as it deserves. 



Even to one familiar with the literary and scientific work carried 

 on in Canada, the amount of such work annually done by Canadians is 

 surprising, when it is seen gathered together and at one view, as in 

 these laborious bibliographies. 



13. Préservation of Places of Scenic and Historic Interest. 



The Council are glad to present in the Transactions for this year 

 the first fruits of the Committee on this interesting subject, suggested 

 by the Council in 1901. The Honourable Senator Poirier, an Acadian 

 oi old French stock, has visited the ruins of the old French fortress of 

 Louisbourg, and written a valuable monograph on the events which one 

 hundred and fifty years ago attracted the attention of all Europe and 

 America to that small point on our Acadian coast. It is a place of 

 supreme historic interest, for there was played the opening act of the 

 Titanic struggle of France and England for the mastery of the Ameri- 

 can continent. After a century and a half of neglect, the harbour is 

 beginning to resume the importance wliich it merits, and industrial 

 activity is effacing the scars oî old conflicts; but so long as human 

 hearts' continue to throb at the recital of deeds of noble daring, so long 

 the memories of the moss grown casemates of old Louisbourg will con- 

 tinue to be cherished. 



The Council have also to express their satisfaction at the defeat 

 of the attempt made in Montreal to sweep away the old Chateau de 

 Eamezay. The Legislature of Quebec was too proud of the memories 

 of the French race in Canada to sanction such an act of vandalism 

 as to destroy that witness, standing dumb and yet eloquent, of the deeds 

 and sacrifices of long past years. The Council hopes that it may stand 

 for many future years, so that when our grandchildren ask what means 



