PROCEEDINGS FOR 1913 XXXVII 



Hitherto these, for want of accommodation, have been stored in boxes 

 and are entirely unavailable. The Government, we are glad to say, 

 are now affording space and shelving for this collection in the Victoria 

 Museum; but a very heavy expense will have to be incurred for sorting, 

 cataloguing and binding before the unbound publications, numbering 

 many hundreds of volumes, can be placed on the shelves. 



The need for larger financial resources led the Society two years 

 ago to increase its annual membership fee from $2.00 to $5.00, but the 

 Parliamentary grant has remained the same since the date of founda- 

 tion. 



The undersigned, therefore, representing the Council of the Society, 

 would request that the annual Parliamentary grant be increased from 

 $5,000.00 to $8,000.00 and that provision be made therefor in the esti- 

 mates of the fiscal year 1913-14. This grant would enable the Society 

 to improve its publications and to meet the growing demand for their 

 gratuitous distribution. It would render it possible to offer induce- 

 ments for literary works dealing with subjects of public importance, to 

 guarantee the expense of specially approved lines of scientific research 

 and offer rewards for monographs of merit upon scientific subjects. It 

 is considered most important that at this time when scientific studies 

 are greatly subdivided and specialized, this Society should l^e enabled 

 to foster and assist what might be called the side lines of research which 

 are often of the utmost value in contributing to the success of investiga- 

 tions that have some broad and general aim. The library of the Society 

 would also be organized and would become a valuable ally of the Par- 

 liamentary library and the library of the Geological Survey. 



All of which is respectfully submitted. 



W. D. LeSuEUR, President. 



XIV. — Finances of the Society. 



The Honorary Treasurer's statement of Receipts and Expenditure 

 is appended. This is furnished under two heads ot Government Grant 

 Account and General Account, and has been duly audited by two mem- 

 bers of the Society, Dr. Adam Shortt and Dr. J. C. Glashan, appointed 

 by the Council for that purpose. 



