PROCEEDINGS FOR 1911 XIX 
The Elgin Historical and Scientific Institute, by Dr. J. H. Coyne, 
F.R.S.C., delegate. 
The Women’s Auxiliary of the Elgin Historical and Scientific 
Institute, by Dr. J. H. Coyne. 
Interim report of the Ontario Historical Institute, by C. W. 
James, Esq. 
The Huron Institute, by Dr. J. H. Coyne, delegate. 
Niagara Historical Society, by the Honorary Secretary. 
The Ottawa Field Naturalists’ Club, by Alex. McNeill, Esq., Pres- 
ident and delegate. 
The Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Montreal, by R. W. 
McLachlan, F.R.S.C., delegate. 
The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, by Carl Engler, Esq., 
B.A., delegate. 
The Natural History Society of New Brunswick, by Mr. W. J. 
Wilson, delegate. 
The New Brunswick Historical Society, by Rev. W. O. Raymond, 
delegate. 
The New Brunswick Loyalist Society, by Rev. W. O. Raymond, 
delegate. 
Institut Canadien de Québec, by M. Ferdinand Roy, delegate. 
Entomological Society of Ontario, by Prof. J. M. Swaine, delegate. 
M. Adjutor Rivard made a verbal report from the Société de 
Parler Français de Québec. 
The session was then adjourned until Thursday at 2.30 p.m. 
PoPuLAR LECTURE. 
The popular lecture was delivered by Dr. P. H. Bryce, Chief 
Medical Officer of the Department of the Interior, in the Hall of the 
Normal School, at 8.15 p.m. on Wednesday. The subject—“ The 
Production and Conservation of Foods in relation to National Health 
and Prosperity’”’—was ably dealt with, and a cordial vote of thanks 
was presented to the lecturer. 
SESSION IV (Thursday afternoon, 18th May). 
The chair was taken by the President at 2.30. He read a memor- 
andum with further reference to the “World Encircling System of 
State owned Cables,” and requested the members to give it their care- 
ful consideration and decide later in the session as to the wisdom of 
adopting it as the deliverance of the Society on that most important 
subject. 
It was moved by Dr. Johnson, seconded by Mr. Duncan C. Scott, 
that the report of the Natural History Society of Montreal, which has 
