ACT OF INCOEPOEATIOX. ; 



46 Victoria, Chap, 46. 

 An Act to Incorporate the Royal Society of Canada. 



[Assented to 25th May, 1883.] 



"WHEEEAS the persons hereinafter mentioned have, by their 

 petition, represented that a Society called, with the sanction of Her 

 jMost Gracions Majesty the Queen, " The Eoyal Society of Canada," 

 has been founded in Canada by His Excellency the Eight Honourable 

 the Marquis of Lome, Governor-General of Canada; that the said 

 Society has been maintained for some months by the petitioners and 

 others, and that the objects of the said Society are : — first, to encourage 

 studies and investigations in literature and science; secondly, to pub- 

 lish transactions annually or semi-annually, containing the minutes of 

 proceedings at meetings, records of the work performed, original papers 

 and memoirs of merit, and such other documents as may be deemed 

 worthy of publication; thirdly, to offer prizes or other inducements 

 for valuable papers on subjects relating to Canada and to aid researches 

 already begun and carried so far as to render their ultimate value 

 probable; fourthly, to assist in the collection of specimens with a view 

 to the formation of a Canadian Museum of archives, ethnology, archae- 

 ology and natural history: and whereas the said petitioners have prayed 

 that, for the better attainment of the said objects, the Society may be 

 incorporated by Act of the Parliament of Canada, and it is expedient 

 to grant the prayer of the said petition: Therefore Her Majesty, by 

 and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons 

 of Canada, enacts as follows : — 



1. J. AY. Dawson, C.M.G., LL.D., F.E.S., President; the Honour- 

 able P. J. 0. Chauveau, LL.D., Docteur es Lettres, Vice-President; 

 if. M. LeMoine, Esquire, Daniel Wilson, LL.D., F.E.S.E., T. Sterry 

 Hunt, LL.D., F.E.S., A. E. C. Selwyn, LL.D., F.E.S., Presidents of 

 Sections; Faucher de St. Maurice, Esquire, Charles Carpmael, M.A., 

 George Lawson, Ph.D., LL.D., Vice-Presidents of Sections; J. G. 

 Bourinot, F.S.S., Honorary Secretary; J. A. Grant, M.D., F.G.S., 

 Honora.r5^ Treasurer; Goldwin Smith, D.C.L., the Eeverend Abbé 

 Begin, D.D., the Eeverend Abbé Bois, !N"apoleon Bourassa, Esquire, 

 the Eeverend Abbé Casgrain, Docteur es Lettres, Paul DeCazes, Esquire, 

 Oscar Dunn, Esquire, the Honourable Hector Fabre, Louis H.Frechette, 

 LL.D., Xapoleon LeGendre, Esquire, Pamphile Lemay, Esquire, the Hon- 

 ourable F. G. j\rarchand, Joseph ]\[armette, Esquire, the Honourable 

 "Mv. Justice Eouthier, Docteur es Lettres, Benjamin Suite, Esquire, 

 the Eeverend Abbé Tanguay, Joseph Tassé, Esquire, the Eeverend Abbé 



