XXX THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
were present: Dr. Adam Shortt, Hon. J. W. Longley, Dr. W. W. 
Campbell, Dr. George Bryce, Mr. W. D. Lighthall, Mr. R. W. McLach- 
lan, Mr. D. C. Scott, Sir Wm. Peterson, Dr. Maurice Hutton, Dr. J. H. 
Coyne, Mr. E. W. Thomson, Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King, Dr. W. D. 
LeSueur, Dr. O. D. Skelton and Mr. L. J. Burpee. 
Dr. Bryce was elected to represent the Section on the Nominating 
Committee. 
The Report of Council was taken up for consideration of such 
matters as required action by the Section. 
It was decided that Section II does not concur in the Amendment 
of the By-laws proposed by Dr. A. B. Macallum, the consensus of 
opinion being that, so far as Section II is concerned, the system at 
present in force in the Section should be continued. 
Dr. Shortt gave his Presidential Address on “The Economic 
Effects of the War on Canada,” at 2.30 p.m. on Tuesday. 
The Section considered the proposal of the Council as to Advisory 
Assistance to the Government in Research Work, and appointed a 
sub-committee, consisting of Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King, Dr. Shortt, 
Dr. Skelton and Dr. Bryce, to draft a report embodying the views 
of the Section. The report was submitted and adopted by the Section 
for submission to the Society. 
Mr. Scott and Mr. Burpee were appointed a Committee to pre- 
pare a list of Fellows of the Society who are serving in connection with 
the war in any capacity. 
It was also the opinion of the Section that the Society should 
recognize in some suitable way the fact that sons of some of our 
Fellows are at present offering their lives in the service of their country. » 
The Section considered the suggestion of Council that the fiftieth 
anniversary of Confederation should be recognized at the meeting 
of the Society in 1917, and concurred in the recommendations of 
Council. 
The following resolution in the matter of a Canadian National 
Library was adopted for submission to the Society: 
Moved by Mr. Burpee, seconded by Dr. Campbell— 
That plans are now under consideration for the reconstruction 
of the interior of the Parliament Building; that these plans will doubt- 
less include the Library of Parliament; that the Librarians of Parlia- 
ment have for many years past reported the increasingly overcrowded 
state of the shelves, and the impossibility of providing further accom- 
modation in the existing building; that the Royal Society of Canada 
has already urged upon the Dominion Government the desirability 
of establishing at the earliest possible date a Canadian National 
Library; that the present appears to be an appropriate time for 
