ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA. 



PROCKBDINGS FOR 18 8 7. 



SIXTH GENERAL MEETING, MAY, 1887. 



SESSION I. (May 25th.) 



Tho Eoyal Society of Canada held its sixth general meeting in the City Hall, Ottawa, on Wed- 

 nesday, May 25th. Tho President, Monsignor Ilamcl, took the chair at 11 o'clock a.m., and formally 

 called the meeting to oider. 



The minutes of the fifth general meeting. May, 188'J, as printed in tho fouith volume of the 

 Transiictions, were read and approved. 



The Honorary Secretary then read tho following 



Eeport of Council. 



The Council have the honour to submit their Annual Report. 



In tho month of May last, the Council appointed the following gentlemen to act as members of 

 the Printing Committee viz., Dr. T. S. Hunt, Sir W. Dawson, Mr. Tho.s. Macfarlane, Monsignor 

 Hamel, Hon. P. J. O. Chauveau and Prof. Johnson, of whom three should constitute a quorum. We 

 are happy to be able to state, that the fourth volume, which contains nearly 500 pages, was printed 

 with more despatch than in previous j'ears, and one fourth of the edition is already in course of 

 being distributed among tho members, libraries, associations, members of Parliament and others 

 to whom the Society is accustomed to send them. The new rules with respect to the handing in of 

 manuscripts and the correction of proofs by the authors have on the whole facilitated the work of 

 pi'inting and editing. 



The experience gained from year to year, however, proves that greater facilities might yet be 

 given by the authors of papers, especiallj^ in having them submitted in a more comj)lete shape at the 

 annual meetings, so as to avoid the delay in subsequent correction. As a rule, every paper should be 

 in a suitable form for printing when read before a Section. From the abstract of the accounts of 

 Messrs Dawson, which are herewith submitted, it will be seen that the cost of printing the fourth 

 volume has been much less than that of any of the previous volumes : — 



Proc. 1887. A. 



