II ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
Letters of excuse were received from Messrs. H. M. Ami, 
L. W. Bailey, Robert Bell, C.S. J. Bethune, and T. J. W. Burgess. 
After a few introductory remarks by the President, it was moved 
by Dr. W. F. King, and seconded by Dr. W. Saunders, that the minutes 
of the Annual Meeting of last year, as contained in the printed Proceed- 
ings in the hands of members be confirmed.—Carried. 
The Annual Report, printed copies of which were in the hands of 
members, was then read by the Honorary Secretary, certain portions, 
by consent, being omitted. The Report was as follows:— 
REPORT OF COUNCIL 
To the Members of the Royal Society of Canada. 
In presenting their report on the operations of the Society during 
the past year the Council feel it their duty to refer, in the first place, to 
the event of world-wide import which caused the postponement of the 
Annual Meeting to the late date at which it is now being held, the death, 
namely, of his late Most Gracious Majesty, King Edward the Seventh. 
The meeting, as the members are aware, was to have been held in the 
third week of May; but as it was during that week that the funeral obse- 
quies of his late Majesty were appointed to take place it was felt that it 
would be entirely unsuitable to hold the meeting then. For reasons 
into which it is not necessary to enter, no other date in May appeared to 
be convenient or available, and, as many members travel during the 
summer months, it was thought best, on the whole, to choose a date in 
September sufficiently late to permit of their return in time for the 
meeting. 
It is needless to say how profoundly your Council participated in the 
general sentiment of sorrow created by the death of a monarch beloved 
in no ordinary degree by his own people, and honoured and esteemed by 
the whole civilized world—one who was regarded as wielding the most 
potent influence for peace and good-will among the nations which, per- 
haps, it had ever been given to sovereign or statesman to exert. This 
Society, enjoying by express permission of the illustrious mother of our 
late King, the designation of “Royal”, felt, it is not too much to say, 
that in her son and successor its headship in a certain sense resided, 
and that in his son and successor it now resides. It would seem fitting, 
therefore, that the sentiments of the Society in regard to the death 
of our late sovereign and the accession of His Majesty King George 
the Fifth should be expressed in an address to his present Majesty to 
be adopted at this meeting. 
Apart from the grave event which caused the postponement of the 
meeting, the Council had much reason to regret the change of arrange- 
