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tidal survey of Canadian waters had been started by 

 the Canadian Government since the Montreal meet- 

 ing : the Association at Toronto found this survey 

 in danger of extinction, and urged against such a 

 measure. The Council, on making a representation 

 to this effect, learned that while the survey could 

 not be extended at the time, the existing tidal gauges 

 and the preparation of tables were to be maintained. 

 A committee was formed, with a grant, under which 

 a plant for meteorological observations was estab- 

 lished on the summit of Mount Royal at Montreal. 

 Another committee secured the establishment of a 

 marine biological station in the Gulf of St. Lawrence ; 

 a third undertook the investigations of Canadian 

 Pleistocene flora and fauna ; the committee on the 

 north-western tribes of the Dominion, appointed at 

 the Montreal meeting, was still at work, and another, 

 with the Toronto meeting in prospect, had been 

 appointed in 1896 to take up an ethnological survey 

 of Canada, and subsequently presented a series of 

 reports. 



SOUTH AFRICA, 1905 



In 1905 the Annual Meeting was held in South 

 Africa. A sum of 6000 was subscribed by the 

 Governments of Cape Colony (3000), Transvaal and 

 Orange River Colony (2000), and Natal (1000), as 

 a subvention toward the ocean passages of members 

 of an official party of invited guests, and a South 

 African Fund amounting to 3100 was privately 

 subscribed in England to meet extraordinary ex- 

 penditure in connexion with the meeting. The 

 number of visiting members was 380. By a special 



