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The fields of science and letters are large and there is always 

 more and more to be done. In a comparatively new country like 

 Canada perhaps the importance of science has not always been 

 recognized as it should bc' — -but I feel sure that it is most necessary and 

 in fact vital to the well-being of the country that everything should 

 be done to encourage the study of the same. I have heard, with 

 interest, what you have been and are doing to encourage these arts 

 and am sure that the 38 volumes you have published are eagerly read 

 and studied in many countries besides the Dominion. 



I heartily thank you gentlemen for your assurances of loyalty 

 and devotion to the Throne and Empire and for your very kind 

 personal wishes to myself, which I most sincerely appreciate. 



V — Nova Scotia Historical Celebration 



On behalf of the committee appointed at the last meeting to 

 represent the Society at the Historical Celebration in Annapolis 

 Royal on August 31st last. Brig. General Cruikshank has submitted 

 the following report : — 



Ottawa, 27th February, 1922. 



The Secretary of The Royal Society of Canada, 

 Ottawa, Ont. 



Sir, 



I beg to report that in pursuance of the resolution passed by The 

 Royal Society of Canada at its session held on May 20, 1921, the 

 following members attended as delegates at the triple celebration 

 of historic events at Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, on August 31st, 

 1921, namely, Mr. Justice Longley, Dr. Archibald MacMechan and 

 the writer. 



The proceedings comprised the unveiling of three commemorative 

 tablets; the delivery of addresses by Mr. Justice Chisholm, Hon. 

 George Murray, Sir James Aikins, Chief Justice Harris and Hon. F. 

 B. McCurdy; and the reading of three papers on historical subjects 

 at an evening meeting. 



The tablets, which were unveiled on a temporary platform 

 erected on the former parade ground within the ramparts of Fort 

 Anne, now a Dominion Park property, bore these inscriptions: 



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This tablet, placed here by the Government of Nova Scotia, 

 A.D. 1921, commemorates the three hundredth anniversary of the 



