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The Council had an interview with the Premier of Canada, the Et. Hon. Sir John A. Macdonakl, 

 in the course of April last, with respect to a continuance of the grant of $5,000 which has been for 

 some years generously contributed towards the publication of the Transactions of the Society by the 

 Government of the Dominion. At his suggestion, a memorial on the subject was, as heretofore, sub- 

 mitted to the Governor-General in Council, and the Council of the Society hope that Ihoir request will 

 receive favourable consideration. A refusal to renew the grant at this juncture would bo very 

 injurious to the interests of science and literature in Canada. Were the Society unable to print 

 their elaborate Transactions, the eifect would be unfortunate in Europe and America, where the 

 volumes are attracting considerable interest. Not a week passes without some evidence being 

 furnished of the attention that the papers are receiving in cultivated circles abroad, and requests for 

 the volumes are constantly at hand from various centres of intelligence to which they have not 

 hitherto been sent. Only a fortnight ago, for instance, the Honorary Secrevary received some very 

 interesting volumes fi'om the Imperial University of Jajjan, at Tokio, with an expression of the wish 

 that the Transactions should bo regularly sent to that institution. 



The exchanges that are regularly received from Societies in Canada and other countries, direct 

 our attention naturally to the necessity that exists for establishing a library of our own, or of using 

 the annually accumulating stores of scientific and literary information in some useful and pi'actical 

 way. At present, a large number of volumes are stored away, and cannot be made valuable to the 

 members or others interested in scientific pursuits. Last autumn, a large collection of books and 

 maps was sent to the Society by the officers of the Geological Survey of the State of Pennsylvania, 



