PROCEEDINGS FOR 1909 LI 



academic year, the President sinnnioned a meeting of the Council for 

 that purpose. The meeting was held on the 2Gth of Xovember last, when 

 Dr. W. D. Le Sueur, a member of Section II, vras elected to the vacant 

 office. 



9. — IÎEPRINTIXO or THE REGULATIONS. 



Considerable changes having been made in the Regulations of the 

 Society at the last annual meeting, it was thought desirable to reprint 

 them as amended. This was done in the' month of January last, and 

 opportunity was taken of the sending out of nomination forms on the 

 38th of the same month to send a copy to each member. 



10. — Elections. 



The Regulations, as amended assigned earlier dates than previously 

 to the different stages of the process of electing new members, and the 

 dates prescribed were carefully observed. As already mentioned, the 

 nomination papers, accompanied by a circular mentioning the number of 

 peaces to be filled in each section, went out on the 38th January. On 

 the 1st March lists of the nominations received together with ballot 

 papers were distributed. On the 1st April the ballot was closed, and at a 

 Council meeting held in the evening of May 5th, the honorary secretary 

 fnnounced the result to be tlie election, subject to confirmation by the 

 Society, of the following gentlemen : — 



In Section I. — Mr. Ernest Myrand, of Quebec. 



In Section II.— Prof. C. W. Colby, of Montreal. 



In Section III. — Prof. Frank Allen, of Winnipeg, Prof. Jolm C. 

 Fields, of Toronto, Prof. D. ?vIcIntosh, of Montreal, Prof. H. M. Tory, 

 of Edmonton. 



In Section IV. — Prof. Ernest ^Y. McBride, of Montreal. 



In the first three sections all the candidates nominated were elected. 

 In Section IV there were nine candidates nominated, and it will rest with 

 the Section — as there were four places to be filled — to present to the 

 Society the names of any three of the candidates for whom, in the Section, 

 a two-thirds vote may be cast. 



It is interesting to note how widely the membership of the Society is 

 dispersed over the Dominion, or rather, we may say, over British North 

 America. Two of our new mem.bers come from the provinces of Mani- 

 toba and Alberta, respectively, and the Society could previously claim one 

 member from Newfoundland, and one from Nanaimo on Vancouver 

 Inland. It is satisfactory to think that it is thus creating interest and 

 promoting the spread of knowledge and culture in the remoter as well as 

 in the more central parts of the Dominion ; and we are encouraged to 



