XX THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
been received too late to be read with the other reports yesterday, be 
received: also that the report of the Nova Scotian Institute of Science 
be received.—Carried. 
It was moved by M. Benjamin Sulte, seconded by Dr. J. H. Coyne, 
that, as Canada is one of the very few civilized countries that does not 
to-day possess a National Library, and as it is of the utmost import- 
ance that such an institution should be established at an early date, 
the Government of the Dominion be memoralized to appoint a Royal 
Commission to examine into and report upon the plan and scope of 
the great National Libraries of Europe and America, with a view to 
the organization of a Canadian Library that would most efficiently 
meet the needs of this country.—Carried. 
The Nomination Committee then presented the following report, 
read by Dr. J. Edmond Roy. 
Ottawa, 18 May, 1911. 
The Nomination Committee appointed at the present session and 
composed of Dr. J. Edmond Roy, Professor Alfred Baker, Professor 
A. B. Macallum, Dr. W. Bell Dawson, Dr. J. H. Coyne, W. D. 
Lighthall, and has the honour to report as follows:— 
The Committee unanimously recommends the nomination of the 
following officers :— 
President—Dr. W. F. King, C.M.G. 
Vice-President—Dr. W. D. LeSueur. 
Honorary Secretary—Mr. D. C. Scott. 
Honorary Treasurer—Mr. L. M. Lambe. 
It is specially recommended that the Council be authorized to 
appropriate an amount not exceeding three hundred dollars from the 
available funds of the Society in order to provide clerical aid for the 
Honorary Secretary in the execution of his important functions during 
his term of office. 
It is also specially recommended that in future no one be nominated 
for the office of President or Vice-President of the Society who has 
not previously held the office of President of a Section or of Honorary 
Secretary of the Society. 
The Committee has annexed to the present report two letters 
from the Honorary Secretary, Dr. W. D. LeSueur, the first declining 
a renomination as Honorary Secretary, and the other giving valuable 
information regarding the office of Honorary, Secretary. 
J. Epmonp Roy, President. 
A. B. MACALLUM. 
W. Bett Dawson. 
JAMES H. Coyne. 
A ALFRED BAKER. 
