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bound in good strong serviceable shape. Thus is rendered immediately 

 available a vast amount of biographical data of much importance. 

 We need not be surprised, possibly, if some family traditions long ac- 

 cepted as unquestionable history in many quarters should need careful 

 revision after comparison witli this comparatively new source of in- 

 formation. 



The removal by death of George Upham Hay, Ph. D., a meml:)er 

 of the Royal Society of Canada, and at the time of his death President 

 of our Society, naturally somewhat unsettled for a time the routine of 

 our Society. His more active work was along the lines of the Natural 

 History Society, and no doubt in the report from that Society his life 

 and work will receive full attention. 



Some individual work has been accomplished by our members 

 during the year. One at least has published a volume of about 450 

 pages in extent after nearly five years of preparatory work. Another, 

 Mr. Clarence Ward, has continued his series of weekly contributions to 

 the St. John Globe, Avhich have been a valued feature in that Journal 

 for the past ten years. 



The New Brunswick Historical Society not being the ovrner of a 

 permanent home, has made an arrangement with the Commissioners of 

 the St. John Free Public Library by which its somewhat unpretentious 

 collections of books and manuscripts will be cared for in the Library 

 building, under the supervision of its trained staff. 



In conclusion, permit me as the representative of the New Bruns- 

 wick Historical Society, to convey to the Royal Society of Canada an 

 expression of the best wishes of our Society for a long continuance in 

 the valuable work which for so many years it has successfully carried on. 



XV. — New Brunswick Loyalists' Society. 



Presented by D. R. Jack, Secretary, (Delegate). 



The New Brunswick Loyalists' Society has completed the thirtieth 

 year of its existence. That which has just closed has been by no means 

 the least active since the inception of the Society. 



The meetings which are held monthly during the greater part of 

 the year, have had a larger attendance than for several years im- 

 mediately preceding. 



Papers have been prepared and read from time to time by its 

 historian. 



As has been tiie custom for several years past, that official prepared 

 a paper which was read in all the public schools of St. John of grade ten 

 and upwards, at the 130th anniversary of the first landing of the Loyal- 



