THIRD ORDINARY MEETING. ny 
A paper entitled “ The Literature of English-speaking 
Canada” was then read by C. Pelham Mulvany, M.A., M.D., 
T.C.D. Among the writers reviewed were Prof. Watson, Mr. 
Le Sueur, Mr. Grant Allen, Prof. Dawson, Mr. R. W. Phipps, 
Dr. Canniff, Principal Grant, Mr. Charles Dent, Mr. J. E.. 
Collins, Mr. George Stewart, Mr. C. G. D. Roberts, “ Seranus,” 
“Espérance,’ and Mr. P. Thompson. In discussing the 
paper Mr. Geo. Murray noticed the omission of the names of 
Dr. Rolph, Mr. Charles Lindsay, and especially the late Mr. 
W. J. Rattray. 
THIRD ORDINARY MEETING. 
The Third Ordinary Meeting of Session 1883-84 was held 
on Saturday, November 17th, the President’ in the chair. 
The minutes of last meeting were read and confirmed. 
Mr. Henry P. Gisborne was elected a member. 
The following exchange was announced as received since 
last meeting : 
Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, N.S., Vol. V., No. 11, for 
November, 1883. 
Mr. W. A. Douglas, B.A., then read a paper on “ LAND AND 
LABOUR,” in which a distinction was drawn between property 
in land and property in other things. We had adopted the 
system of land tenure that prevailed in Western Europe, and 
by this system the greater part of society were practically 
deprived of any right to the surface of the earth. Of two 
settlers in the North-West, for example, one secures a section 
which becomes a farm, the other a section which becomes the 
site of a town; after twenty years the farm sells for $30 or 
$50 an acre, the town site for $10,000 or $100,000 an acre, 
It is more than likely that the owner of the town-lot had 
done less toil for his reward than the farmer. There was a 
great distinction between trade in land and trade in other 
commodities. A man or a number of men take a piece of 
worthless rock, they subject it to smelting, rolling, etc, and 
