PROCEEDINGS FOR 1911 III 
“My Dear Mr. LeSueur: 
To my very great regret I find that the Conference on Pelagic Sealing will be 
sitting here on the 17th May. I cannot go to Ottawa then, and I must therefore 
abandon the hope of coming to deliver the address to The Royal Society. 
Will you please express to the Council of the Society my deep disappointment 
at being unable to have the great pleasure of meeting the members, and my hope 
that on some future occasion I may be more fortunate. 
Believe me, 
Sincerely yours, 
JAMES BRYCE.” 
Considering the lateness of the date it seemed doubtful whether it 
would be possible to secure another lecturer who could undertake to be 
prepared by the 17th of May; and the Council feel deeply indebted to 
Dr. P. H. Bryce, Chief Medical Officer of the Department of the Interior, 
for consenting, on so short a notice, to deliver the lecture the title of 
which you will see in the Programme. 
I.—Tue ADDRESS To THE KING. 
The Society took advantage of its first meeting after the death 
of the late King to adopt an address to His Majesty George V, expressive 
of their sentiments in connection with an event which had caused heart- 
felt sorrow throughout the whole British Empire, and also of their 
loyal devotion to his present Majesty and their appreciation of the 
interest he had shown in the Dominion of Canada. That address,in 
its English version, is on the face of the Minutes. It was duly translated 
into French and was then engrossed in both languages and placed in 
the hands of the Secretary of State for transmission to His Majesty. 
An acknowledgment conveying His Majesty’s thanks was lately received 
by the President of the Society through the Governor General. A fac- 
simile reproduction of the address, as engrossed in both languages, 
is inserted in the volume of Proceedings and Transactions now being 
issued. | 
II.—PROCEEDINGS AND TRANSACTIONS OF THE SOCIETY. 
In last year’s Report, which was duly adopted by the Society, 
it was recommended that, for the present, the annual volume of Proceed- 
ings and Transactions should not be allowed to exceed 1,000 pages, 
and the Printing Committees of the different sections made their 
arrangements accordingly. Owing, in part, to the withdrawal of cer- 
tain papers which had been entered on the Programme, the present 
volume falls considerably short of the limit fixed. There is no reason, 
however, to apprehend an insufficiency in future of papers adapted for 
publication. The programme of the present meeting shows an adequate 
number of papers in all the sections. 
