LXXX ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



Tihe additions, during 1902, to the Society's collection were; 



To the Museum: 



Indian Antiquities 10 



Other Antiquities, mostly Canadian 130 



Coins and medals 20 



150 



To the National Gallery : 



Canadian Portraits 10 



Canadian Views 10 



Canadian Maps 10 



Foreign Views, etc 90 



120 



To the Library: 



Books, a large part Canadian 1000 



Pamphlets 1500 



Documents 30 



2530 



2800 



A grand total of twenty-eight hundred items. But, besides this 

 the Society has secured on loan a fine collection, numbering over five 

 hundred pieces of Indian antiquities found in the South Western States. 

 Many of them similar to those found in our own North- West. 



Last fall the east wall of the Elgin Gallery having been declared 

 to be unsafe, had to be rebuilt. This is no part of the Château de 

 Eamezay proper, but simply an annex, the superstructure of which 

 was built under the administration of Lord Elgin. As this wall was 

 being pulled down by the city's contractors the whole superstructure 

 collapsed, and the Gallery had to be entirely built anew. The accident 

 proved to be by no means an unmixed evil, for the Society has been 

 able to remodel the building so as to make it more conformable to the 

 use to which it was assigned, and now our portrait gallery has a most 

 attractive home; and is one of the best of its kind on the continent 

 bf America; with its well on to three hundred portraits of people all 

 in some way or other connected with the history of Canada. 



This spring the Council made a demand for the concession of a 

 piece of land in the rear for some civic purpose, offering in exchange 

 a piece on the west side, together with a sum of money for necessary 

 repairs. This exchange has made it necessary the pulling down of 

 another recent annex known as the court room. By this arrangement 

 we expect to remove the library, now occupying the walls of the salon 



