XXVI ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
in Nova Scotia in the year 1758, a date which stands also for its first 
establishment in any part of the present Empire outside the British 
Isles. The Society learns with extreme satisfaction that the wider 
scope which the movement has lately assumed is due in no small 
measure to the well directed and untiring efforts of one of its own most 
honoured members, whose absence from this meeting on account of 
illness is deeply regretted, Sir Sandford Fleming, K.C.M.G. The Society 
desires to express its sympathy with the Canadian Club of Halifax, 
in the good work it has undertaken, and its high appreciation of the 
important part taken therein by its own distinguished member whose 
name has been mentioned.—Carried. 
The following report from Section III was presented by Dr. W. F. 
King, C.M.G.:—Section III recommends that professors Bovey, Cox and 
Owens, who have left the Dominion of Canada, be placed on the retired 
list of members of this Society, retaining in each case the right to use 
the title of Fellow of the Society. 
Dr. King moved, seconded by Dr. Glashan, that the report be 
adopted.—Carried. 
The session was then adjourned till the afternoon at 4 o’clock. 
AFTERNOON SESSION. (Wednesday, 28th September, 1910) 
The President took the chair at 4 p.m. Col. Wood from the Com- 
mittee on the Address to the King presented the draft of an address 
which had been approved by the committee and which was as follows: 
To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty— 
May it Please Y our Majesty:— 
We the President and Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada, 
now assembled in Annual Meeting, humbly approach your Majesty to 
offer our sincere condolence for the loss your Majesty has suffered by 
the death of your Royal Father, His Majesty King Edward VII, and to 
assure you of our most respectful sympathy. We have long felt as 
individuals the sense of keen personal loss which we are only now able 
to express, for the first time, as a corporate body. We likewise beg 
leave to assure your Majesty that this great loss has touched us in 
another most intimate way, since King Edward was the author of the 
Anglo-French entente, which naturally struck every sympathetic chord 
between the Anglo- and French-Canadians under the British Crown. 
May it also please your Majesty to accept the heartfelt assurance of 
our most devoted loyalty to your Throne and Person. We take the 
greatest pride in the honour of being one of your Majesty’s “Royal” 
Societies. We shall never forget the interest that Her Royal Highness 
