PROCEEDINGS FOR 1920 IX 



The costs of printing and paper, and of the reproduction of 

 the valuable illustrations to our scientific papers have steadily- 

 grown heavier. We further would call attention to the fact that 

 the Society has twice increased its annual membership fee, and 

 last year we increased it from $5 to $10, to cover the expenses of 

 the annual meetings, none of which are charged to the Parlia- 

 mentary appropriation ; that is entirely reserved for the expenses 

 of printing and for the administration of the library. 



It would not have been possible to issue the Proceedings and 

 Transactions for 1919 had the Advisory Council for Scientific 

 Research not made a special grant of $3,000 to The Royal Society. 



Canada has no other scientific periodical in which the results 

 of Canadian scientific research can be announced to the public. 

 This donation of the Advisory Council was made to enable The 

 Royal Society to publish in its Transactions the more valuable 

 researches in the fields of Biology, Physics, Chemistry and 

 Geology, instead of having these papers scattered in American 

 and English periodicals. 



The Transactions of the Society are sent to all the important 

 libraries of the world and there they represent the scientific and 

 literary activities of our Country. Our experience shows that 

 they are highly valued. The scientific papers are abstracted in 

 the United States, England, France and Germany and all libraries 

 are careful to keep their sets of our publications up-to-date and 

 complete. We submit that it would be in the best interests of 

 Canada to maintain and strengthen the Society, and we hope 

 that the Government will not allow the record of the nation's 

 intellectual effort to disappear from the places where it has been 

 sought for and honoured. 



Signed on behalf of the Society, 



(Sgd.) R. F. RUTTAN, 



President. 



V. — Report of the Honorary Librarian. 



The Honorary Librarian begs to report that the routine of 

 receiving and cataloguing the books and pamphlets received as ex- 

 changes has been carried on as usual. The receipts are noteworthy 

 in the resumption, after a lapse of four years, of many valuable 

 journals and reports. Many of those received are accumulations, 

 owing to lack of transportation, but, in the case of many of the Belgian 

 scientific publications, there was an entire suspension of publication 

 during the war years. 



