PROCEEDINGS FOR 1908 III 



In another letter to the President, His Excellency expressed his 

 intention of being present at a special meeting, which it is hoped to 

 arrange to hold during the Tercentenary Celebration of the Founding 

 of Quebec, in July next, in the following words : — " I notice that you 

 are to have a special meeting of the Society during the Tercentenary 

 Celebration at Quebec, and I look forward with much pleasure to being 

 able to attend at that time." 



EEPOET OF COUNCIL, 1908. 



The Council of the Eoyal Society of Canada have the honour to 

 present. their annual report as follows: — 



1. Printing of Transactions. 



The Proceedings and Transactions for 1907 have been published 

 as Vol. I, Series iii, and make a volume of 1228 pages, containing 153 

 illustrations and maps. This is the largest volume yet published by 

 the Society, and contains many long and valuable papers. 7,650 copies 

 of authors' separates have been distributed to Fellows of the Society 

 and other contributors. There has been delay in the issue of some of 

 these separates, and the Council must again draw the attention of authors 

 to the chief causes to which this delay is due. By far the most impor- 

 tant of these is the long time taken by contributors in returning their 

 printer's proofs; the other is that, heretofore, the printers have waited 

 until a full forme of 16 pages is ready before that as locked up and 

 struck off. One forme may contain the completion of a paper, a whole 

 paper, and also the beginning of another; thus, it was necessary for 

 the revised proofs of all of these papers to be returned before the forme 

 could be struck off. To obviate this trouble the Publishing Committee 

 hope in future to arrange with the printers to lock up each paper sepa- 

 rately and strike off the extras at once, so that Fellows who have returned 

 their proofs promptly may not be at a disadvantage from the negligence 

 of less considerate authors. This will increase the cost of publishing 

 somewhat, but it seems to be the only way of meeting the difficulty. 

 The Council is glad to report the publication of the elaborate General 

 Index to the First and Second Series of the Proceedings and Trans- 

 axîtions from 1882 to 1906, sl volume of 133 pages, which has been 

 prepared with much labour and care by Mr. Benjamin Suite. This 

 index gives additional value to the two series of transactions which 

 have appeared, as it renders reference easy, and the large mass of valu- 

 able information contained in these volumes is now readily available 

 to all who have need of consulting them. 



