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election of Mr. Archibald. The Section may make a selection from 

 those whose votes were equal to fill the other three vacancies and 

 recommend them to the Society for election. 



III. — Deceased Members. 



It is with deep regret that we record six vacancies in the ranks 

 of the Fellows, which have occurred by death: Dr. W. D. LeSueur, 

 Dr. W. W. Campbell, Dr. G. P. Girdwood, Dr. Robert Bell, Professor 

 C. H. McLeod, and Rev. Father Jones. 



The biographical sketches were written respectively by Dr. 

 John Reade, Mr. W. D. Lighthall, Dr. R. F. Ruttan, Mr. Charles 

 Camsell, Mr. Fraser Keith and Rev. Father Devine. 



WILLIAM DAWSON LESUEUR 



Dr. William Dawson Le Sueur, a son of Mr. Peter LeSueur, 

 for many years chief of the Post Office money order system of Canada, 

 and subsequently Secretary of the Dominion Board of Civil Service 

 Examiners, and of Barbara (Dawson), his wife, was born at Quebec 

 on the 19th February, 1840. He was educated at the Montreal 

 High School, the Ontario Law School and Toronto University. In 

 1856 he entered the Canadian Civil Service, during the entire period 

 of his connection with which he was attached to the Post Office 

 Department. Of that Department he was Secretary from 1888 

 until 1902 when he retired from the Service. While the conscientious 

 assiduity and the intelligence that he brought to the discharge of his 

 duties won the acknowledgment of his superiors, his official work 

 was really but a fragment of the labours that engaged his ever active 

 mind. Intellectually, he was gifted greatly above the average of 

 mankind and so diverse and comprehensive were his endowments 

 that one may well hesitate to say where he most excelled. His 

 devotion to the classics of Greece and Rome may be said to date from 

 his boyhood. He was Dux of the Montreal High School at a time 

 when Latin and Greek were deemed more essential in education than 

 they are to-day. When in 1863 he graduated in the University of 

 Toronto, he took honours in Classics. One of his very latest literary 

 achievements was a Latin metrical version of Dr. John Mason Neale's 

 beautiful hymn, "Art thou weary ? Art thou languid ?" Yet his un- 

 ceasing cultivation of the old classics never prevented Dr. LeSueur 

 from appreciating what he considered praiseworthy in modern litera- 

 ture, especially in that of the motherlands with which the twofold 

 culture of which this Society is the guardian is filially allied. His 

 essays on Sainte Beuve and other eminent French writers which 



