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were foimders of the Eoyal Society of Canada may be mentioned, Dr. 

 T. Sterry Hunt, Dr. George M. Dawson, former Director of the Geo- 

 logical Survey of Canada, Dr. A. E. C. Selwyn, who for twenty-five 

 years was Director of the Geological Survey of Canada, Dr. Eobert Bell, 

 Chief Geologist of the Survey, Dr. B. J. Harrington, Professor of 

 Chemistry and Mineralogy of McGill University, Sir Sandford Fleming, 

 Sir James Grant, and Dr. J. F. Whiteaves, Palaeontologist and Zoologist 

 of the Geological Survey of Canada, whom you honoured this very year, 

 1907, with the Lyell Medal, for his distinguished contrihutions to 

 palEeontology. 



To the present generation of Fellows of your Society Canada owes a 

 further debt of gratitude for their ganerous aid and writings on many 

 critical points in geobgy and palaeontology and who by counsel and 

 advice on knotty points in nomenclature, classification, etc., have render- 

 ed most valuable assistance. 



In common with ofur brethren from various portions of the world 

 who have come to London to celebrate this anniversary of the founding 

 of your Society, we present to you the sincere felicitations of the Eoyal 

 Society of Canada, and wish your Society a continued career of in- 

 creasing activity. 



Frank D. Adams, 1 ^ , 



-rr ^r A r Delegates. 



Henry M. Ami, j ^ 



London, September twenty-sixth, one thousand nine hundred and 

 seven. 



Subsequently this address was suitably engrossed and forwarded to 

 the officers of the Geological Society of London, and in due course the 

 following acknowledgment was received: — 



Geological Society of London, 



Burlington House, W., 



February 19th, 1908. 

 Dear Sir, 



On behalf of the Geological Society of Loudon we ask you to 

 express to the Council of the Eoyal Society of Canada, our sense of 

 the honour conferred upon the Society by the fact that the Eoyal Society 

 of Canada was represented on the occasion of the celehration of the 

 Centenary of the Society by such distinguished delegates as Professor 

 F. D. Adams and Dr. H. M. Ami, whom it was a great pleasure to 

 welcome among our other guests on that historic occasion. 



We are sending a copy of the " History of the Geological Society," 



