XXXVI ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



given by Dr. T. Gibson and Mr. D. Heins, and a number of explanatory 

 lime light slides were shown. 



After the lecture an '' At Home " of the resident Fellows was held 

 in the Normal School Building, 



SESSION III. (May 21st.) 



The Eoyal Society assembled at 10 a.m 



The following telegram was read and referred to the Committee 

 upon the proposed Cham plain celebration: — 



St. John, N.B., May 2(>th, 1903. 



The President of the Royal Society of Canada, 

 Ottawa. 



The New Brunswick Loyalists Society cordially invites the Eoyal 

 Society of Canada to hold annual meeting for 1904 at St. John. 

 Would suggest that if practicable date of meeting be arranged to 

 include May 18th, the one hundred and twenty-first anniversary of 

 landing of Loyalists or June 24th, ter-centenary of discovery River St'. 

 John. 



D. R. Jack (Historian) 

 for Officers and Members of New Brunswick Loyalists Society, 



The following reply from the Duke of Argyll was also read: — 



Inveearat, May 21st, 1903. 

 Congratulations and thanks. Sympathy for sufferers by fire. 



Argyll. 



The reply from His Majesty the King was received after the meet- 

 ing closed and is as follows: — 



London, May 25th, 1903. 

 President Royal Society of Canada, 



I have the honour of submitting your telegram to the King and I 

 am commanded by His Majesty to express his warm thanks to the 

 members of the Society for their loyal congratulations. 



Knollys. 



The Nominating Committee brought in the following report: — 

 The Committee beg to recommend the following gentlemen to be 

 officers for the year 1903-4 : — 



President— Lt.-Col. G. T. Denison, B.C.L. 

 Vice-President — ^Benjamin Suite. 

 Honorary Secretary — Dr. S. E. Dawson. 

 Honorary Treasurer — Dr. James Fletcher. 



