VIII EOYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA. 



List op Members Present. 



The Honorary Secretary called ovei- the roll of members, and the following gentlemen responded 

 to their names : — 



Abbé Begin, Dr. Chauveau, P. do Cazes, A. D. DeCelles, Faucher de Saint-Maurice, P. LeMay, 

 A. Lusignan, B. Suite, Abbé Tanguay, Abbé Verreau, Dr. Bourinot, Eev. Dr. ^Eneaa Dawson, J. 

 Lesporance, Veiy Eev. Dr. Grant, Eev. Dr. Murray, John Eeade, Dr. Stewart, Dr. Daniel Wilson, Evan 

 McColl, C. H. Carpmael, E. Deville, Dr. Fortin, Piof. Girdwood, Dr. J. A. Grant, Sir J. W. 

 Dawson, F. N. Gisborne, Monsignor Hamel, Prof. Harrington, G. C. Hoffmann, Dr. Johnson, T. 

 Macfarlane, Prof. Bailey, Dr. Bell, J. Fletcher, Abbé Laflamme, Piof. Lawson, G. F. Matthew, Prof. 

 Penhallow, W. Saunders, Dr. Selwyn, J. F. Whiteaves, C. Baillargé, Abbé Casgrain. 



The Eeport of Council, and the recommendations contained therein, were then taken into consi- 

 deration. 



Address to the Queen. 

 The Honorary Secretary read the following draft of an Address to Her Majesty the Queen : — 



To the Queen's Most excellent Majesty. 

 Most Gracious Sovereign, — 



We, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Fellows of the Eoyal Society of Canada, 

 in annual meeting assembled in the city of Ottawa, this twenty-fifth day of May, eighteen hundred 

 and eighty-seven, beg leave to express our most heai'ty congratulations on the happy advent of the 

 fiftieth year of Your Mnjesty's Accession to the Throne of the United Kingdom. 



The Eoyal Society of Canada, which owes its origin to the efforts of His Excellency our late 

 Governor-General, the most noble Marquis of Lome, was established to promote investigation and dis- 

 covery in every department of Science, and to encourage the cultivation of sound literature both in 

 the English and French Languages in our Dominion. In both of these objects the Eoyal Society 

 believes it has not proved undeserving of the honourable title so graciously given to it by Your 

 Majesty. 



In this literary union of the English and Fi-ench communities that inhabit Canada, Y'our M.ajesty 

 has additional evidence of the desire that exists among them to cooperate in all matters that may 

 affect the intellectual, as well as the material development of the young confederation which has 

 grown into existence during Your Majesty's happy reign. 



The Eoyal Society feels itself specially called upon, in common with all classes of the people, to 

 express its gratitude to Almighty God for the many years of peace, prosperity and ha2:)piness which 

 Canada has enjoyed under Your Majesty's long and glorious reign, during which oui- counhy, from 

 small and weak beginnings, has grown into a great and powerful Dominion. 



It is with j)ride that we review the marvellous extension of yoav empire, the settlement and 

 civilisation of vast territories, the spread of Christianity, the rapid advance of the sciences and the 

 discovery of new improvmonts in mechanics and the general diffusion of literature and education 

 among all classes of your peojjle ; — these great achievements will forever make Your Majesty's reign 

 memorable in the history of the world. 



Our gratitude and loyal devotion to Your Majesty, under whom, by God's favoui'ing providence, 

 such great things have come to pass, causes us most heartily to join in the general joy of our fellow - 

 subjects all over this empire on this Jubilee of l''our Majesty's long and auspicious reign. 



And we devoutly pray that length of days, and health, and prosperity, may still attend Y'our 

 Majesty, and that you may long continue to rule over a free, happy and united empire. 



