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Nature within it, a lover of the beautiful in the sculpture and records 

 of its geologic base and its biologic crown, and in the spirits of his 

 nobler compatriots who are developing the higher civilization. 



In the Spring of 1920 his vitality was lowered by a severe attack 

 of whooping cough; but he was not confined to the house by a 

 weakening heart for more than a week before he passed away on the 

 18th of July, in his ninetieth year. 



He was married in 1862 to Miss Ellen Terrill, of Wooler, Ontario, 

 who survived him. His children are: Mrs. A. O. Wheeler, Sidney, 

 B.C.; Mrs. R. A. Kingman, Wallingford, Vt.; Mrs. W. M. Everall, 

 Victoria, B.C.; and Mr. W. T. Macoun, Dominion Horticulturist, 

 Experimental Farm, Ottawa. His eldest son, Mr. James M. Macoun, 

 Chief of the Biological Division of the Geological Survey, predeceased 

 him by only a few months. 



IV — Address of Welcome to His Excellency the Governor 



General 



On January 17th a delegation, consisting of the President, 

 Honorary Secretary and several other members of the Council, 

 visited His Excellency the Governor General and presented the follow- 

 ing address : — 



To His Excellency Baron Byng of Vimy, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., M.V.O., 



Governor General of Canada, 

 Government House, 

 Ottawa, Canada. 

 Sir, 



The Royal Society of Canada desires to extend to you a cordial 

 welcome to this country and to express the hope that the close relations 

 with Canadians begun so strenuously under the trying conditions of 

 war will continue and strengthen under the happy conditions of 

 peace. 



The Society was founded in the year 1882 by one of your dis- 

 tinguished predecessors in the Ofifice of Governor General, the late 

 Duke of Argyll (then the Marquis of Lome) and since that time it 

 has been honoured in having as its Patron the Governor General 

 of Canada, during his term of office. Under such distinguished 

 patronage the Society has gradually and consistently extended its 

 sphere of usefulness in the fields of science and of letters. 



In order to encourage and reward studies and investigations the 

 Society is empowered to offer prizes and other inducements for 

 meritorious papers on literary and scientific subjects, and these papers, 



