CXLVI THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



Officers and Council for 1914. 



Hon. President — James Douglas, D.C.L. 



President — Mr. Justice McCorkill. 



Vice-Presidents— J. T. Ross, A. H. Cook, Col. Turnbull, Dr. J. 

 M. Harper. 



Treasurer — James Geggie. 



Recording Secretary — A. Robertson. 



Corresponding Secretary — Lieut. -Col. Lindsay. 



Council Secretary — Wm. Clint. 



Librarian — E. T. D. Chambers. 



Curator of Museum — Philias Gagnon. 



Curator of Apparatus — J. M. Johnston. 



Additional Members of Council — Rev. Dr. Scott, Rev. Father 

 O'Leary, F. Lampson, D. H. Geggie. 



Past Presidents ex-officio — Lt.-Col. Wood, P. B. Casgrain, Cy. 

 Tessier, Dr. G. W. Parmelee, Dr. John Hamilton, Col. H. Neilson. 



The President ex-officio member of all Committees. 



XIV. — Report of the Nova Scotia Historical Society. 

 Presented by Hon. Mr. Justice Longley, F.R.S.C, Delegate. 



Officers of the N.S. Historical Society, elected 3rd April, 1914. 



President — Ven. Archdeacon Armitage, Ph.D. 



Vice-Presidents — Dr. David Allison, Major J. Plimsoll Edwards 

 and Joseph A. Chisholm, K.C. 



Corresponding Secretary — Harry Piers. 



Recording Secretary — William L. Payzant. 



Treasurer — George E. E. Nichols. 



Auditors— W. L. Brown and Lt.-Col. F. H. Oxley. 



Other Members of Council— Dr. A. H. Mackay, G. W. T. Irving, 

 W. C. Milner and George Mullane. 



Library Commissioners — James S. Macdonald, Rev. Dr. John 

 Forrest, Dr. A. H. MacKay and Dr. J. Johnston Hunt. 



The membership was increased during the year 1913-14 by the 

 election of 164 new members. 



The following historic Tablets have been erected : — 



1. To mark the Birth-place of Sir John Inglis, The Hero of 

 Lucknow (Unveiled by Colonel the Hon. Sam. Hughes). 



2. To mark the "Gun" used on the "Shannon," in the famous 

 action with the Chesapeake; and long used as the Noon-day gun of 

 Halifax. (Unveiled by Sir Ian Hamilton). 



