CXXXIV THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



Officers, 1914. 



President. — Colonel G. Sterling Ryerson. 



Vice-Presidents. — Colonel G. T. Denison; E. B. L. Hill, Van- 

 couver, B. C; Colonel Hugh Havelock McLean, St. John, N.B.; 

 R. S. Neville, K.C.; Mrs. Dignam. 



Honorary General Secretary. — Miss Helen M. Merrill. 



Honorary Treasurer. — A. R. Davis. 



Standard Bearer. — Miss Laura Ryerson. 



Honorary Legal Adviser. — C. E. Macdonald. 



Honorary Genealogist. — E. M. Chadwick, K.C. 



Honorary Chaplain. — Rev. Canon A. W. Macnab. 



Central Council. — Rev. Canon Alfred Brown, Halifax; George 

 H. Ham, Montreal; Colonel A. H. Macdonald, Guelph; Sir John 

 Beverley Robinson, Edgewater, N.J.; Lt. Col. J. J. Gregory, Lacombe, 

 Alta.; Mrs. J. J. Gemmel, Ottawa; Albert J. Hill, New Westminster. 

 Lieut.-Colonel R. W. Gregory, St. Catharines; H. S. Seaman, Winnipeg; 

 Lt. Col. H. C. Rogers, Peterborough; E. B. Merrill, Moose Jaw"; Lt. Col. 

 Wm. Hamilton Merritt, Toronto; L. V. Chipman, Annapolis Royal, 

 N.S.; Hugh Munro, M.P.P., Alexandria. 



The following ten Members of Council with the Officers form 

 the Executive Committee: — 



Major W. N. Keefer, E. A. Maclaurin, Lt. Col. F. Macqueen, 

 Captain V. A. Hall, J. S. Carstairs, F. O. Loft, Lt. Col. G. A. Shaw, 

 Miss Catharine Merritt, Mrs. R. Stearns Hicks, Mrs. Edmund 

 Phillips. 



Investigating Committee. — Colonel Ryerson, Miss Merrill, A. 

 R. Davis. 



Publishing Committee. — The President, the Secretary, the 

 Treasurer. 



Ladies Committee. — Mrs. R. A. Payne, Mrs. Forsyth Grant, 

 Miss Laura Clarke, Dr. Amelia Johnston, Mrs. J. D. Tyrrell, Miss 

 Strathy, Mrs. R. W. Hicks, Mrs. Norman Allen, Miss Deeks, Miss 

 Dickson, Miss Carey, Mrs. Law. 



IX. — Report of the Canadian Forestry Association. 



By J as. Lawler, Secretary. 



The work of the Canadian Forestry Association in its effort to 

 arouse public opinion to the need of forest conservation and rational 

 forest development was pressed vigorously forward in 1913. The 

 Association carries on its work by the spread of literature, the deliver- 



