XVII i ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



held at Quebec, to coiiiiueiuorate the tcix-euteuary of the founding 

 of that city in 1G08 by Samuel de Chaniplaiu and the comnieuee- 

 ment of our National History. At the same time the battk'Iields 

 of Wolfe, Montcalm and Levis will be dedicated as a I'ublic 

 Park in memory of the great events which transpired there. 

 This celebration is appealing very strongly to the people of 

 Canada and to the Dominion and Provincial Governments, and 

 H.E.H. the' Prince of Wales has signified his intention to assist 

 at the ceremonies. Under circumstances so unusual the Royal 

 Society of Canada has been invited to hold a special meeting 

 at Quebec, and a resolution to that effect wall doubtless be passed 

 at the meeting in May next. It is, therefore, proposed that 

 the Meteorological Conference shall meet at Quebec during the 

 week following the tercentenary celebration. Further informa- 

 tion will be sent later, as soon as the details are decided upon. 

 Great interest has been taken in the celebration in England and 

 elsewhere. Besides the squadron of H.E.H. the Prince of Wales 

 the navies of France and the United States will be represented 

 and many distinguished persons are expected to be present. 



We hope that you will find the change of date will answer 

 your convenience better than the first fixed, and we hope also 

 that the interest of the occasion will add another inducement to 

 attend. 



Arrangements are now made for holding the Meteorological Con- 

 gress in Quebec during the Tercentenary Celebration, and it is hoped 

 that many of the Fellows of our Society will arrange to be present to 

 do honour to our visitors. Many men of eminence and of world-wide 

 reputation have expressed their intention of being present, and there 

 will be delegates from all our leading Canadian universities. 



10. — Deceased Members. 



Dr. Napoleon Legendre. — Little by little the ranks are thinning 

 out of those whom the Marquis of Lome first called to form the Royal So- 

 ciety and who were our Charter j\[embers. This year the Council regrets 

 to record the death of Dr. Napoléon Legendre, a member of Section I, 

 which occurred in Quebec on the 16th of December, 1907. Dr. Legendre 

 closely followed to the grave his colleagues, Casgrain, Lusignan. Faucher 

 de Saint-Maurice and Marmette, who belonged to his literary group. 



Dr. Legendre was received as an advocate in 1805 : but his 

 modest and simple tastes soon made him give up the active and 

 busy life of the bar to enter the administrative service in which 

 Tie was able to give full scope to his artistic soid. IJo first 

 tried his hand at novel writing, and in 1872 published "Sabre et 



