PROCEEDINGS FOR 1909 LXIX 



î^atural History Society o£ Xew Brunswick, by j\Ir. W. J. Wilson. 

 Société du Parler Français au Canada, by M. Adjutor Eivard. 

 After which the following notice of motion from Section III was 

 placed in the hands of the secretary : — 



Ottawa, May 26th, 1909. 



By direction of Section III, the undersigned hereby give notice that, 



at the general meeting to-morrow, they will move that Sir Joseph J. 



Thomson, of Cambridge University, be elected a corresponding member 



of this Society. 



Sir Joseph Thomson is one of the most eminent men of our time ; 



his great discoveries in the domain of the physical sciences have made his 



name famous throughout the world. 



H. T. Barnes, 

 J. A. McLennan, 

 E. Deville. 



A further report from Section III was read by the secretary of the 

 Section, Dr. E. Deville, recommending that the Society subscribe a sum 

 of twenty-five dollars to the memorial fund now being collected by the 

 Eoyal Academy of Science at Turin in conmiemoration of the hundredth 

 anniversary of the publication or Avogadro's celebrated memoir on the 

 molecular constitution of gases. 



Notice of motion, to be made to-morrow, for the appropriation of 

 the sum in question to the purpose mentioned was at the same time given 

 by Dr. Deville, seconded by Dr. H. T. Barnes. 



The honorary secretary laid on the table a letter from Mr. John E. 

 Wood, honorary secretary of the Canadian Club at Halifax, inviting the 

 attention of the officers and members of the Eoyal Society of Canada to a 

 proposal to erect at Halifax a national memorial tower to mark the first 

 establishment, in October, 1758, of representative government in Canada. 



A letter from Dr. T. Wesley Mills, a member of Section IV, dated 

 4? Harrington Crescent, Maida A^ale, London, May 8th, 1909, was read 

 to the meeting by Mr. Lambe. Jn this letter the writer declared him- 

 self to be strongly opposed to a suggested division of Section IV. Tlie 

 honorary secretar}^ was requested to refer the letter to the committee ap- 

 pointed to consider the question of the formation of a special section of 

 political and social science. 



A letter from Mr. W. H. Harrington of Section IV, dated May 24th, 

 1909, addressed to Dr. Macallum, president of the section, regretting 

 liis inability to attend the meetings of the Society, and stating that he 

 had in consequence felt it necessary to resign from the Society, was sub- 



