XVIII ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



11. — Meeting of Meteorologists. 



In the early part of the present year the Secretary liad some cor- 

 respondence with Mr. E. F. Stupart of the Meteorological Service of 

 Canada — one of the Fellows of the Society — in relation to a proposed 

 meeting of meteorologists at Ottawa. The letters themselves will 

 best set forth the subject. 



Meteorological Office. 



Toronto, December 6th, 1905. 

 Dear Dr. Dawson: — 



At the meeting of the B. A. H. S. in Southport, 1904, Sir John 

 Eliot, late Meteorological Eeporter for India, advocated the organiz- 

 ation of a central Meteorological Department for the British Empire 

 and the matter was again brought up in the B. A. meeting in Cape 

 To\vn this year. In September last at Innsbruck I discussed with 

 Sir John Eliot and Dr. Shaw, the Chief of the British Meteorological 

 Service, the feasibility of having a meeting of British and Colonial 

 Meteorologists in Canada to consider the whole question. While no 

 definite conclusion was arrived at, I am sure they are expecting some 

 proposal from me. Due consideration has convinced me that there 

 would be small chance of getting representatives from Australia, and 

 the Cape, etc., to come here for a meeting, and I have been wondering 

 whether it would not be possible for the Council of the Eoyal Society 

 of Canada at my request to invite certain British and Colonial ]\Iete.or- 

 clogists to attend the next Eoyal Society meeting in Ottawa — there 

 to discuss desirable co-operation between the Eoyal Society of Canada 

 and other scientific societies within the Empire, as regards meteor- 

 ological problems, I think that Sir John Eliot, F.E.S., and Dr, W. 

 X. Shaw, F.E.S.. and probably Sir Xorman Lockyer would, on invita- 

 tion, attend such meeting, I feel sure you will be able to tell me 

 off-hand whether such a suggestion can be carried out, hence I venture 

 +o trouble yon. 



Yours sincerely, 



E. F, Stupart. 

 Dr, S. E, Dawson, 



Hon. Secretary Royal Society of Canada, 

 Ottawa. 



Meteorological Office, 



Toronto, January 12th, 1906, 

 Dear Dr, Dawson : — 



I desire to thank yon for having brought the subject of my letter 

 of December 6th before the Council of the Eoyal Society, Whatever 



