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may be done it must be made quite clear to all who are invited that 

 they will have to pay their own expenses, or rather that their expenses 

 should be borne by the Imperial and various Colonial ^Governments 

 which they represent. I enclose herewith a copy of a letter from Dr. 

 Shaw, from which it is evident he will not be satisfied with a meeting 

 of just a few from Great Britain and suggests that a circular be sent 

 to all the Colonies asking whether they were willing to send representa- 

 tives to discuss meteorological problems from an Imperial standpoint. 

 If this be done a meeting in j\[ay next is quite out of the ques- 

 tion — but might well be arranged for jMay, 1907. I do think 

 that such a meeting is altogether desirable, and would like to have it 

 in Canada, and the Eoyal Society being willing to further the scheme 

 it will, I think, be quite possible to carry it out. 



If then you will leave the matter in abeyance for the present, I 

 will write unofficially to my meteorological colleagues in the various 

 parts of the Empire and ask whether if such a meeting were arranged 

 for, they would be willing to attend. 



Yours very truly, 



R. F. Stupart, 



Director. 

 Dr. S. E. Dawson, 



Secretary Boyal Society of Canada. 

 Ottawa. 



The Council recommends that the correspondence be referred to 

 Section III. for consideration and report. 



13. — The Celebration at St. Malo. 



The celebration at St. Malo in commemoration of Jacques Cartier 

 took place on July 23rd, 1905, as annoanced in the report of Council 

 in May of that 3^ear. No one had been deputed to attend; but Sir 

 Sandford Fleming, who was then in England, kindly wrote to offer 

 his services. The formal letter was, however, too late to reach him 

 m time, and it was addressed directly to the President of the Committee 

 at St. Malo. It was as follows: — 



Ottawa, 20 juin 1905. 

 Monsieur le Président, 



La Société Eoyale du Canada est heureuse de pouvoir se faire 

 représenter auprès du comité Jacques Cartier, de Saint-j\Ialo, à l'occa- 

 sion de la pose d'une plaque commemorative de la découverte du Canada, 

 le 23 juillet prochain. Afin que vous puissiez juger de l'intérêt que 

 nous portons à cette fête, je dirai que la moitié de nos membres se 

 livrent aux études historiques concernant le Canada, et que par consé- 



