PROCEEDINGS FOR 1913 LI 



Report of Section IV. 



Section IV held four sessions which were attended by seventeen 

 Fellows and several visitors. Twenty-seven papers were read, either 

 in full or by title, a list of which is appended. These papers proved of 

 exceptional interest and were very fully discussed. The Section un- 

 animously passed the following resolutions which are herewith sub- 

 mitted to the Council: — 



1, — That Section IV recommend to the Council that two medals 

 be awarded from time to time, one in literature and one in science, al- 

 ternately, on the recommendations of Sections I and II and III and IV 

 respectively, the said medals to be called the Royal Society of Canada 

 medals. These medals to be awarded for work accomplished in Canada, 

 and that the recipient need not necessarily be a Fellow of the Society. 



11. — That the Council be requested to consider the possibility of 

 voting grants in aid of scientific research. 



III. — That the Council be requested to consider whether addition- 

 al facilities cannot be provided by The Royal Society of Canada for the 

 more extended and rapid publications of the results of investigations 

 carried on in the Dominion of Canada. 



The following members were nominated for the Sectional Printing 

 Committee: — Dr. Hewitt, Dr. Harrison and Dr. Barlow. 



Dr. Hewitt and Dr. Harrison to act on the general Printing Com- 

 mittee of the Society. 



The Sectional Officers for the ensuing year were elected as follow : — 



President, Professor A. P. Coleman. 



Vice-President, Professor A. H. R. Buller. 



Secretary, Professor J. J. Mackenzie. 



The Section desires to recommend that Dr. Hewitt be appointed 

 to represent The Royal Society of Canada at the Jubilee of the Entomo- 

 logical Society of Ontario in August of this year. 



Papers Read Before Section IV. 



1. — A. G. Nicholls. — Presidential Address. The Debt of Medicine 

 to the Allied Natural Sciences. 



2. — H. M. Ami. — Bibliography of Canadian Geology and Palaeon- 

 tology 1908-1912; and An Account of the Fourteenth Session of the 

 International Congress of Anthropology and Pre-historic Archaeology 

 held in Geneva, Switzerland, September, 1912. Read by title. 



3. — C. J. S. Bethune. — Bibliography of Canadian Entomology for 

 the year 1912. (Prepared by S. C. Gordon Hewitt). Read by title. 



