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extended as far as Australia, New Zealand and Singapore, and you will 

 readily see how impossible it is to make a change at this late date. 



I will, however, bring your letter before the Council at its first 

 meeting, and I think that it is more than possible that the Soeiety will 

 decide to hold a special meeting at Quebec in July. I am sure they 

 will consider it an honour and a privilege to assist in commemorating 

 a person so worthy and so noble in^every respect as Samuel de Champlain. 



Yours truly, 



(Signed) S. E. Dawson, 

 President, Royal Society of Canada. 



This letter was acknowledged by His Worship Mayor Garneau as 

 follows : — 



Mayor's OfQce, 



Quebec, February 20th 1908. 

 Dr. S. E. Dawson, 



President of the Royal Society of Canada, 

 Ottawa. 

 Dear Sir, 



I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 

 February 4th, 1908, in response to the invitation which I had the 

 pleasure of extending, through you, to the Royal Society of Canada, 

 on behalf of our Tercentenary Committee, to hold its next annual meet- 

 ing in Quebec in the month of August. 



Your letter has been submitted to our Executive Committee, which 

 fully understands from it, how impossible it would be for you to change 

 the date of the session already arranged for next May, and the Com- 

 mittee desires me to thank you most warmly for your kind response, 

 and to express the pleasure and gratification which it affords them to 

 look forward to the special meeting proposed to be held here next July. 



Yours truly, 



J. Geo. Garneau^ 



Mayor of Quebec. 

 President of the Executive Committee 

 of the Tercentenary Celebration. 



These letters were duly laid before the Council, and the suggested 

 arrangements met with unanimous approval. A day has been set apart 

 by the Programme Committee for a special meeting of the Society and 

 for the participation of our members, as such, in the ceremonies. The 

 Council hopes that there will be a good attendance of the Fellows on 

 this unique occasion of doing honour to our country, more especially 



