IV THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



Highways of the Fur Trade. By Lawrence J. Burpee ... . 183 

 The Capture of Oswego by Montcalm in 1756, a Study in Naval 



Power; with an Appendix of Letters from Captain Housman 



Broadley, Commander of the British Forces on Lake Ontario. 



By W. Lawson Grant 193 



An Organization of the Scientific Investigation of the Indian 



Place-nomenclature of the Maritime Provinces of Canada. 



By W. F. Ganong 259 



Railroad Construction and National Prosperity: An Historic 



Parallel. By Adam Shortt 295 



Matthew Arnold as Poet. By Pelham Edgar 309 



The Loyalist Settlements on the Gaspé Peninsula. By 



Wilbur H. Siebert 399 



The Temporary Settlements of Loyalists at Machiche, P.Q. 



By Wilbur H. Siebert 407 



The First Governor of New Brunswick and the Acadians of the 



River Saint John. By Ven. Archdeacon Raymond. . 415 



SECTION III. 



Presidential Address. By R. F. Stupart 1 



Modern Views on the Constitution of the Atom. By A. S. 



Eve 9 



The Crushing Strength of Ice. By H. T. Barnes 19 



Some Experiments in the Doctrine of Probability. By 

 Alfred Baker 23 



The Expansive Force of Ice. By H. T. Barnes, J. W. 

 Hayward and Norman McLeod 29 



A Determination of the Coefficient of Expansion of Mercury at 



Low Temperatures. By C. B. James 51 



On Determination of Avogadro's Number and the Electronic 

 Charge by the Application of Rayleigh's Law to the Smith- 

 sonian Observations of the Absorption of Solar Radiation 

 by the Earth's Atmosphere. By L. V. King 59 



Vapour Pressures of Halogen Hydrides and Hydrogen Sul- 

 phide. By O. Maass and D. McIntosh 65 



Records of the Difference of Temperature between Mount 

 Royal and McGill College Observatory. By C. H. McLeod 

 a n I > H. T. Barnes 73 



The Dawson Isothermal Layer of Low Temperature in the 



Gulf of St. Lawrence. By H. T. Barnes 75 



The Nitrogen Compounds in Rain and Snoiv. By F. T. 

 Shutt 83 



