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and Patron of the Society, and an address of welcome to his successor, 
His Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught. It is with pleasure that 
we are able to announce that His Royal Highness has signified his wil- 
lingness to become the Honorary President and Patron of the Society. 
The cordial words in which this honour was conferred upon us are 
printed below. The Council was most graciously received on the 
occasion of the call at Government House and His Royal Highness has 
already shown his interest inthe Society bysignifying his intention of 
attending the annual popular lecture. The text of the addresses and 
the replies follow :— 
To His Excellency The Right Honourable Sir Albert Henry George Earl Grey, P.C., 
G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief of the Dominion 
of Canada. 
The time is approaching when Your Excellency will lay aside the duties and 
responsibilities of your high office and leave the Dominion. The Royal Society of 
Canada desires to express regret at the termination of your sojourn among us. 
These expressions of regret are more intimate than the general feeling aroused by 
your departure, for the Royal Society may claim to be permanently associated with 
the representative of the Crown in the Dominion; our constitution names the 
Governor-General as the Honorary President of the Society. 
The honour and satisfaction derived from the Presidency of the Governor- 
General has increased during Your Excellency’s time owing to the lively concern 
which you have manifested in the advancement of the country and the development 
of its people. We deem it fortunate that Canada should have possessed during the 
greater part of the past decade a Chief Magistrate who has been able, owing to his 
broad sympathy with all forward movements and his high conceptions of national 
life, to influence the Dominion in a period of rapid and formative growth. We have 
had the inspiriting knowledge that the headship of the State reposed in one whose 
interest in all forms of Canadian life, all quarters of Canadian territory and all ambi- 
tions of the Canadian people was deep and tireless. Your knowledge of modern so- 
ciological problems has prompted your efforts to implant here some of the highest 
ideals in matters of great importance to a young nation. Your extensive journeys 
not only through the cultivated and immediate parts of the country but to remoter 
regions and ruder settlements, have had undeniable influence in fostering national 
sentiment and allegiance to the Crown and the Empire. 
As a Society devoted to letters and science, we have also observed with pleasure 
that you have constantly promoted the intellectual and artistic life of the Dominion. 
In the newer countries it is difficult to give letters, arts and sciences the place which 
by right belongs to them; and it is with gratification we record that the weight of 
vour office and personality have been often thrown into the balance with the influen- 
ces that make for culture. We trust that one of these influences for culture has been 
the work of this Society. During the term of your Presidency, while the material 
wealth and prosperity of Canada has been bruited throughout the world, our labours 
have gone steadily and quietly forward, and our Transactions have published this 
other fact to the world that Canada is not neglectful of the nobler parts of civilization. 
Permit us in closing these sincere words of regret at parting to wish for yourself 
and the Countess Grey continued health and all prosperity and that Your Excellen- 
cies may be associated in the future with successful and congenial activities in the 
wide field of Imperial and International affairs. 
Duncan C. Scorr, W. F. Kine, C.M.G., LL.D. 
Honorary Secretary. President. 
Ottawa, Canada, 23rd September 1911. 
OcToBER 107TH, 1911. 
SIR,— 
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of the address so kindly presented 
to me by the Royal Society of Canada, and to offer you, on Lady Grey’s behalf as well 
