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A rotating coil was installed in the ballroom and connected with 

 the receiving apparatus and the direction finding effect of a loop was 

 demonstrated, and the application of this arrangement as an aid to 

 navigation of ships at sea, and aircraft, was explained. 



Time did not permit to make reference to the important work of 

 other Canadians in various inventions during the Great War. The 

 activities of Professor J. C. McLennan in connection with helium are 

 well known, but much of his work in connection with other develop- 

 ments has not yet been published. Professor R. W. Boyle, of the 

 University of Alberta, also did work of the highest order in connection 

 with special detectors to which Sir Charles Parsons made reference 

 in his Presidential Address before the British Association in 1919. 



Special thanks are due to the Minister of the Department of Naval 

 Service, to Lt. Commander Edwards and his staff of the Radio- 

 Telegraph Department, to the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company 

 of Canada, and their representative, Mr. Runciman, to Miss Lutton 

 and to the personnel of the Chateau Laurier. Their energetic 

 cooperation made the lecture successful. 



SESSION 111.— {Friday afternoon, May 21). 



REPORT OF THE SECTIONS 



Section I 



PROCÈS-VERBAL DE LA SECTION I 



Membres présents ou inscrits: MM. Victor Morin, Ernest 

 Myrand, Fernand Rinfret, Benjamin Suite, ^gidius Fauteux, Edouard 

 Montpetit, Marius Barbeau, M. le chanoine David Gosselin, MM. les 

 abbés Élie-J. Auclair, Lionel Groulx, A. Couillard Després, MM. 

 P.-B. Mignault, A.-D. DeCelles, P. Poirier, T. Chapais, Léon Gérin, 

 Georges Pelletier et Antonio Perrault. 



Se sont excusés de leur absence: MM. E.-Z. Massicotte, P. -G. 

 Roy, E. Rouillard, H.-J.-J.-B. Chouinard, Cyrille Delâge, Mgr. 

 L.-A. Paquet, M. l'abbé H.-A. Scott. 



Travaux lus ou présentés : 



1. Troupes du Canada, 1670-1687, par Benjamin Suite. 



2. Sur un journal inédit du siège de Québec en 1759, par Mg{- 

 dius Fauteux. 



3. Les censitaires du coteau Sainte-Geneviève (banlieue de 

 Québec), de 1636 à 1800, par l'abbé Ivanhoe Caron. 



