XXIV ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



EVENING SESSION. 



The chair was taken by the President at 8 p.m. 



The President presented Diplomas of Honour to the following 

 gentlemen who had been unanimously recommended for that dis- 

 tinction on account of the literar}^ merit of their works by resolution 

 of Section I, adopted at a special meeting of the Section held before 

 the Morning Session of the Society: — 



M. Gustave Zidler, of Paris, 



Abbé H. A. Scott, 



Abbé Amédée Gosselin, 



M. P. B. Casgrain, 



M. Philéas Gagnon, 



M. Ernest Myrand, 



M. H. J. J. B. Chouinard, 



M. Eugène Rouillard. 



Diplomas which had been previously decreed by the Society, but 

 which had not been completed, were also presented to 



M. Adjutor Rivard, 



Abbé S. A. Lortie, 



M. Pierre Georges Roy. 



A deputation from the OnAio Historical Society comprising the 

 following ladies, Mrs. E. J. Thompson, of Toronto; Miss Machar, of 

 Kingston; Miss Carnochan, of Niagara-on-the-Lake, and Mrs. Calder, 

 of Hamilton, together with the following members of the Royal Society 

 of Canada, Rev. Chancellor Burwash, Mr. J. H. Coyne, and Mr. C. C. 

 James, was introduced by Mr. Barlow Cumberland, M.A., President 

 of the Ontario Historical Society, who spoke in part as folloAvs: — 



We are come, Mr. President and gentlemen, to present to the Royal Society of 

 Canada, the respectful homage, and felicitations of the thirty-one Historical Societies 

 of the Province of Ontario of which we are the Central Organization. We con- 

 gratulate our Country upon the splendid work which is being done by your Society 

 in promoting the cultivation of History, Science, and Belles-Lettres in the two 

 languages which are the birthright of our united peoples, and upon the exalted com- 

 mendation which you have been enabled to confer on those who have shown pre- 

 eminent excellence in their several pursuits. 



We desire to evidence the complete partnership of our English-speaking Prov- 

 ince in this festival of the 'Coming of Champlain' with our Compatriots of Quebec. 



Equally with them we rejoice in celebrating the Tercentenary of the beginnings 

 of Canada, and join with the descendants of the hardy Normans in giving loyal and 

 heartiest welcome to His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, the Son of our Union 

 King, the lineal descendant of the Normans of old. 



Our Heroes, and our History are blended today; it is for us to work out to- 

 gether, the wondrous future which lies before our Country. 



