IV ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
separates were struck off and 3,100 bulletins, making 7,300 separate 
papers in all. The maps and illustrations produced numbered 143. 
The distribution of the Transactions was practically the same as in 
the preceding year, though a few additional exchanges were established. 
At the request of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the 
Province of Quebec the Transactions are now being sent to all the Nor- 
mal Schools in that Province. 
2.—DECEASED MEMBERS. 
This year as last, the Society has to lament the loss by death of three 
of its active members. These, naming them in the order in which they 
passed away, were, Dr. J. F. Whiteaves of Ottawa, who died on the 8th of 
August, 1909, Dr. James Hannay, of St. John, N. B., who died on the 
12th January, 1910, and Mr. George Murray, whose death took place 
on the 13th of March, 1910. Two of these, Dr. Whiteaves and Mr. 
Murray, were amongst the eighty members first enrolled in the Society 
on its formation in the year 1882; and all three were men of mark in 
their several lines of activity. Unhappily, the Society year on which we 
have entered has already been marked by another death and one to be 
profoundly regretted, that of Mgr. J.C. K. Laflamme, which occurred at 
Quebec on the 7th of July, as also by that of one of the most distinguished 
of our retired members, M. Hector Fabre, C.M.G., which took place at 
Paris on the 2nd September. As these dates did not fall within the 
period to which the present report properly applies, the usual notices 
will be deferred till the report for 1910-11 is presented at our General 
Meeting next May. Of our other three departed members it is fitting 
that some words should be spoken. 
(1.) J. F. Wuireaves, LL.D., F.G:S. 
The late Dr. Whiteaves, though primarily a man of science— 
zoologist and palæontologist—was at the same time a man of wide 
reading in literature and of a refined taste in art. He was happy in 
having both a vocation and avocations. By the former he won a dis- 
tinguished position in the scientific world; by the latter he gained 
versatility of mind and geniality of disposition. The Ovidian line— 
“Abeunt studia in mores, artesque magistrae ”—is of wider application 
than perhaps the poet had in view. ‘The studies and pursuits to which 
we give ourselves undoubtedly tend to form character. In the case of 
our departed colleague liberal studies had formed a liberal and most 
interesting character—a savant of a high order for those who wished to 
consult him on matters scientific, or draw on his copious stores of 
knowledge; a courteous, kindly and well-informed companion for those 
who would discuss literature or art or any of the broader topics of 
