IV THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
We are printing this year 1260 copies of the Proceedings and Trans- 
actions, of which the usual number will be sent to the institutions in 
Canada and in other countries which are on our exchange list, about 
600 in all. The separates supplied to members, not counting extra 
copies, the cost of which does not fall on the Society, number 3700. 
III.—New MEMBERS ELECTED. 
The result of the election held this year was to strengthen the 
Society by the addition of fourteen new members: three in Section I, 
three in Section II, four in Section III, and four in Section IV. The 
names of the successful candidates are as follow: 
Secrion I.—M. l’Abbé Amédée Gosselin; M. Albert Lozeau; M. 
Pierre-Georges Roy. 
Secrion IIJ.—Mr. Lawrence J. Burpee; Prof. W. L. Grant; Sir 
Edmund Walker, C.V.O. 
Secrion III.—Prof. Louis A. Herdt; Prof. Francis B. Kenrick; 
Prof. William R. Lang; Prof. Robert K. McClung. 
Section IV.—Mr. Reginald W. Brock; Prof. T. G. Brodie; Prof. 
W. Beresford Leathes; Dr. Willett G. Miller. 
These gentlemen were all notified of their election subject to con- 
firmation by the Society; a motion, or motions, for this purpose, will 
be in order. In Sections I and II, in each of which three members 
only were elected, the number eligible being four, an additional member 
may, under the rules, be elected in meeting of Section from amongst 
those nominated this year. 
IV.—MEMBERS RETIRING FROM THE SOCIETY. 
The Council regretted greatly to receive a letter from the Rev. 
Dr. J. Clark Murray, a charter member of the Society, tendering his 
resignation, and they would respectfully recommend that Dr. Murray 
be allowed to retire retaining his rank. 
The Council desire to make the same recommendation in the cases 
of Prof. T. Wesley Mills and Prof. A. Stanley MacKenzie, both of whom 
have notified the Honorary Secretary of their permanent removal from 
Canada, the first to England, and the second to the United States, and 
have expressed a desire to retain a connection with the Society as retired 
members. 
V.—DercraseD MEMBERS. 
The Society has during the past year lost two highly esteemed 
members by death, both in Section IV. On the 6th of July last, Mgr. 
J. C. K. Laflamme, a charter member of the Society, passed away, 
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