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bly Chamber, will be gladly placed at the disposal of the Society for 

 its public sessions, at wliich it is the desire of our Executive that appro- 

 priate and public eulogies of Champlain may be made, in both the 

 English and French languages, by members of your learned Society. 

 We shall deem it a personal favour if you will take \he present 

 invitation into consideration at the earliest possible moment, and can 

 assure you of our best endeavours to contribute to the success of your 

 meeting, and also of the most cordial welcome from the citizens of 

 Quebec, should you honour them by accepting this invitation. 

 I have the honour to be, Sir, 



Your obedient servant, 



J. Geo. Gauneau, 

 Mayor^ 

 President Quebec Tercentenary Committees. 



In reply to this letter the President sent the following answer: — 



Ottawa, February 4th, 1908. 

 His Worship J. George Garneau, 



Mayor of Quebec. 

 Dear Sir, 



I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 

 January 29th, inviting the Royal Society to hold the forthcoming annual 

 meeting at Quebec during the week of the Champlain Celebration in 

 the month of August next, and I have to express my warmest acknow- 

 ledgments and thanks for the honour done to the Society in sending 

 the invitation and providing for such accommodation as is necessary 

 for its meetings. 



It is a source of sincere regret to me that it is not feasible to change 

 the date of meeting from its regular time in May. On each of the 

 three or four occasions in the past twenty-five years when the Society 

 lias met elsewhere than at Ottawa the change was made on a vot« of 

 the Society at its preceding annual meeting, bait the subject was not 

 brought before the last annual meeting. 



The change of place and date is not possible this year, moreover, 

 because the Society, m accordance with a resolution of previous years, 

 has invited the Superintendents of the Meteorological Service of Great 

 Britain and the Colonies to assemble here at its next meeting in May, 

 and the date and place were fixed when the invitations were sent out. 

 The invitations were sent last September through the Imperial Colonial 

 Secretary, the Earl of Elgin. Some have been accepted and some are 

 waiting the action of their respective governments. The correspondence 



