IV ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



SECTION II. 



I. The Sacrificial Rite of the Blackfoot. By E. X. Wilson. 



Presented by Duncax C. Scott 3 



II. The Old Royal Coat of Artns at Placentia. (Illustrated). 



By Most Eeverexd Archbishop Howlfa* 23 



III. Haliburton. (Illustrated). By A. H. O'Brien. Pre- 



sented by Dr. A. G. Doughty 43 



IV. The Talbot Papers— Part IL By J. H. Coyxe 67 



y. The Identity of the Animals and Plants mentioned in the 



Early Voyages to Eastern Canada and Newfound- 

 land. By W. F. Gaxoxg 197 



SECTIOX III. 



I. Presidential Address to Section. Tlie Physical Constants 



of Ice. By Dr. H. T. Barxes 3 



II. On the Amount of Radium Present in Sea-water. By 

 A. S. Eve, M.A., D.Sc. Presented by Dr. H. T. 

 Baexes 29 



III. Primary and Secondary Gamma Rays. By A. S. Eve, 



M.A., D.Sc. Presented by Dr. H. T. Barnes. 

 (Diagrams) 35 



IV. On the Active Deposit from Actinium in Uniform Electric 



Fields. (Diagrams). By W. T. Kennedy, B.A. 



Presented by Prof. McLennan 53 



V. A note on the Solubility of the Radioactive Emanations in 

 Liquids. (Diagrams). By E. W. Boyle, M.Sc, 



Ph.D. Presented by Dr. Barnes 75 



VI. On the Electric Charges acquired in High Vacua by in- 

 sulated Potassium Salts and other Radioactive Sub- 

 stances. (Diagrams). By Prof. J. C. McLennan 81 



VIT. On an Inij)rovcment in the Metliod of Determining 

 Minimum Spark Potentials. (Illustrated). By 

 H, S. Pierheller, B.A. So. Presented by Prof. 

 J . C. McLennan 101 



VIJ I. On the Penetrating Radiation at the Surface of the Earth. 

 (Diagrams). By G. A. Cline, B.A. Presented by 



Prof. McLennan Ill 



IX. The Ice Question — As it affects Canadian Water-Power — 

 ivith special reference to Frazil and Anchor Ice. 

 (Illustrated). By John Murphy, E.E. Presented 

 by Dr. Barnes 143 



