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ANNUAL MEETINGS 



near Montreal, McGill University, and other institu- 

 tions, while a party of geologists was enabled to 

 visit the centres of mining activity at Cobalt and 

 Sudbury. The Winnipeg meeting followed the normal 

 course of annual meetings, with the exception that 

 in place of the then usual single lecture to artisans, 

 two popular lectures to the citizens were provided ; 

 moreover, it was found possible to admit a limited 

 number of the general public to the president's 

 address and the evening discourses. After the 

 meeting, a special train on the Canadian Pacific and 

 Canadian Northern Eailways was provided by the 

 liberality of the western provinces of Saskatchewan, 

 Alberta, and British Columbia, in which 200 invited 

 guests were conveyed on a tour to the west, on lines 

 similar to those of the excursion after the Toronto 

 Meeting in 1897. From Vancouver the party went 

 by steamer to Victoria, where it was received by 

 the provincial Government, and on the return to 

 Vancouver Sir William White gave a lecture on 

 ' Naval Affairs.' On the return journey there was 

 a reception at Edmonton and an excursion on the 

 North Saskatchewan Eiver. 



Among the scientific results of the meeting was 

 the appointment of a committee to investigate the 

 flora of the prairie provinces. Another was appointed 

 (in pursuit of investigations undertaken at earlier 

 Canadian meetings) to further a scheme for an 

 ethnographic survey of Canada, and the Council 

 took action to the same end, which led to the estab- 

 lishment of a department of ethnology under the 

 Geological Survey of the Dominion. Among the 

 sectional transactions, reference is due to an ap- 

 propriate and important discussion and papers on 



