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delegation were duly notified by the Honorary Secretary under date 
the 15th of July, the date for the opening of the meeting being the 
25th August. The Honorary Secretary of the British Association was 
also notified of the action the Society was taking. Twenty-two mem- 
bers in all of this Society attended the meeting, and, at the first public 
lecture delivered, the Rev. Dr. George Bryce, our President, moved, 
in accordance with arrangements previously made, a resolution of 
welcome to the British Association for the Advancement of Science. 
Having himself been the chief agent in inducing the Association to 
come to Winnipeg, he expressed the hope that the visit might be a 
pleasant one and that their coming would have the effect of greatly 
advancing the interests of science, and be the means of binding closer 
the ties between the Mother Country and Canada. The motion was 
seconded by Dr. Alexander Johnson, F.R.S.C., and carried with great 
enthusiasm. 
8.—DARWIN CELEBRATION, JUNE, 1909. 
It was mentioned in last year’s Report that the President (Dr. 
J. E. Roy) had authorized Prof. W. H. Ellis, of Toronto, a member 
of Section III, to represent this Society at the celebration at Cambridge, 
England, of the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin 
and the fiftieth of the publication of his “Origin of Species.” A copy 
of the report made by Prof. Ellis in his capacity as delegate is subjoined. 
Toronto, December 31st, 1909. 
The President of the Royal Society of Canada, 
Ottawa. 
Sir, 
I beg to report that, in accordance with instructions received from the Council, 
I attended, as a delegate from the Royal Society of Canada, the Darwin Celebration 
held at Cambridge, June 22-24, 1909. 
The proceedings comprised the reception of Delegates by the Chancellor, the pre- 
sentation of addresses by the Delegates; the conferring of honorary degrees upon 
eminent naturalists, a banquet and various entertainments given by the Universities 
and Colleges. 
On the evening of the 22nd June the Delegates and invited guests were received 
in the Fitzwilliam Museum by the Chancellor of the University, Lord Rayleigh, O.M., 
F.R.S., Se. D. 
On the following day presentation of addresses by delegates of Universities, 
Colleges, Academies and Learned Societies took place in the Senate House. 
In the evening a banquet was held in the new Examination Hall, at which the 
Chancellor presided. A toast “To the Memory of Charles Darwin” was proposed 
by the Right Honourable A. J. Balfour, seconded by Dr. Svante Arrehenius, and 
acknowledged by Mr. William Erasmus Darwin. 
_ The Vice-Chancellor stated that the University had hoped to induce Dr. Alfred 
Russell Wallace to come and receive an honorary degree at Cambridge. Learning that 
his state of his health would not permit him to accept the invitation, they had sent 
him the following telegram:—“The Naturalists assembled at Cambridge for the 
