REPORT OF DELEGATE TO ROYAL SOCIETY. ix 
of the Society in the Senate Chamber, at 1 p. m., and then the 
meeting adjourned. 
Wednesday the Society again assembled, and reports were 
read by the delegates. These consisted for the most part of 
short papers, giving some account of the design and work of the 
several bodies. Mr. Allison, delegate from the Halifax Historical 
Society, made some pertinent verbal observations of its vbjects 
and progress, and spoke of the importance in connection with it, 
of preserving a particular record of the stirring events which 
had taken place in the early period of our provincial history, 
When called upon I was obliged to state that, owing to some 
misapprehension, for which I could not then satisfactorily 
account, [ had no report. I had telegraphed to Halifax for the 
information I sought, in order to be ready for the occasion, but 
had not obtained it. I had previously prepared a Paper on the 
work of our Institute, which might be read as a report, which I 
then submitted for approval and handed to the Secretary. 
Shortly thereafter the Society adjourned to the Senate Chamber, 
and in about half an hour the Princess Louise arrived with the 
Governor-General and suite, who took their places around the 
throne. A French Canadian member of the Literary Section, 
with powerful voice and strong emphasis, delivered an original 
poem in the French language, “the poet’s eye in a fine frenzy 
rolling.” A number of presentations were then made, but a 
scarcely mannerly assemblage pressing before the Society and 
usurping its place, the Princess soon retired. 
The sitting was resumed in the afternoon, when I| was in- 
formed, through the Secretary of the Section, that the remaining 
time at their disposal was precious, and that it would be advis- 
able to reduce the length of my paper, which he thought a very 
good one. This I immediately set about, and accomplished to 
his satisfaction. In the meantime a rather exciting geological 
discussion had taken place on a Paper read by Dr. Sterry Hunt. 
That gentleman contended that in the Thunder Bay section, or 
district, he had recognized a new geological formation, uncon- 
formable and of considerable thickness and extent, between the 
Huron and Laurentian strata—a statement stoutly opposed by 
