REPORT OF DELEGATE TO ROYAL SOCIETY. XI 
MacGregor, both members of our Halifax Institute, recommended 
me not to press the reading. I acquiesced, and the meeting 
adjourned. I brought away my Paper, which, as I thought it fit 
to be read before the Royal Society, may not be an inappropriate 
Paper for the affiliated Nova Scotian Institute. I leave it with 
you. The Society met again in the afternoon when the celebra- 
tions had terminated. They elected Mr. Chaveau, a talented 
French Canadian gentleman, President for the ensuing year, and 
Dr. Sterry Hunt, an eminent geologist, Vice-President, and then 
the session of the Royal Society concluded its labours with the 
usual formalities. 
It only remains to notice the gracious reception accorded to 
the members and delegates of the Royal Society by His Excel- 
lency the Governor-General and Her Royal Highness the Princess 
Louise, at Rideau Hall. The Society had been specially invited 
to a Lunch and Garden Party, on the anniversary of the birth- 
day of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, mother of the Princess, and 
we need hardly say that the gracious invitation was generally 
accepted. The Presentation took place in the Hall set apart for 
the occasion. There were present Sir Charles Tupper and several 
members of the Government and of Parliament, and other dis- 
tinguished persons. That funny fellow Mark Twain was there 
as a guest of His Excellency. Each member and delegate was 
introduced by Dr. Dawson, President of the Royal Society, and 
shook hands with the Governor-General and Her Royal Highness, 
both of whom looked in the best of health and in excellent good 
humor. The party were then ushered into the dining hall, which 
was soon filled with guests. His Excellency presided. An hour 
was spent in agreeable converse, and ample discussion of the 
viands and wines lavishly prepared for the occasion. Only two 
toasts were proposed. His Excellency gave The health of the 
Queen of England, which was quietly but enthusiastically 
responded to; then that of the President of the United States, 
which would have been responded to by Mark Twain, but was 
otherwise arranged. After the lunch the party visited His 
Excellency’s Museum of curiosities, where were exhibited Zulu 
rifles, on one of which at least “the blood still stuck to the stock,” 
