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ments which they were compelled to make. The programme prepared 
for the occasion announced, it will be remembered, that the annual 
popular lecture would be delivered by one of the most distinguished men 
of the British Empire, the Right Honourable James Bryce, British 
Ambassador to the United States, who had chosen for his subject the 
deeply interesting one of “The Changing East.” Owing to anticipated 
absence from the country, Mr. Bryce could not engage himself to us for 
this meeting, and we must only hope that on some future occasion, 
possibly, the Society and the community may have the great pleasure 
and advantage of greeting him as our lecturer. It will doubtless gratify 
the Society to learn of the kindly and appreciative terms in which His 
Excellency the Ambassador acknowledged the invitation: “I have the 
honour,” he wrote on March 5th, “to acknowledge and thank you for 
your letter conveying to me the invitation of the Council of the Royal 
Society of Canada that I should come to attend their annual meeting 
next May, to deliver the annual public lecture on the evening, of Wed- 
nesday the 18th of May. Iam very sensible of the high compliment of 
this invitation and it would give me great pleasure to accept it.” After 
a reference to some possible difficulties in the way, the letter concludes 
as follows: “I need hardly say that, if I found I could come, it would 
be a great pleasure and honour to me to address so distinguished a body 
as the Royal Society in the capital of Canada.” After some further 
correspondence, Mr. Bryce found it possible to engage himself to us 
definitely for the date mentioned. 
1.—PROCEEDINGS AND TRANSACTIONS OF THE SOCIETY. 
Notwithstanding the wish expressed in last year’s report to 
restrict the limits of our annual volume of Proceedings and Transactions, 
the volume lately put forth has again exceeded 1200 pages, the exact 
number being 1220. This, however, was in part due to exceptional cir- 
cumstances, one of which was the inclusion in the Proceedings of a very 
full report of the special meeting held at Quebec in the month of July, 
1908. Additional need has now arisen for the restriction proposed, 
inasmuch as owing to the general advance in prices, which has affected 
the printing business in a very marked manner, higher rates will have to 
be paid in future for the printing of the volume. The Council did not 
yield to this necessity without making an effort to avert it. Tenders 
were invited from a certain number of responsible and well-equipped 
firms; but the lowest rates obtainable were sensibly in advance of 
those hitherto paid. It has been decided, therefore, that the next 
volume should not exceed 1000 pages, and the Society, it is hoped, will 
see that the decision is a necessary one. 
In addition to the volume as printed and bound, 4,200 authors’ 
