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our schools, our institutes, and our public library, as tbe last addition, for placing 

 the attainment of sound education, useful knowledge, and scientific research within 

 the reach of every class of society, from the lowest to the highest. 



We conclude with the hope that your visit to Toronto may prove in every way 

 a pleasurable and agreeable one. 



FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE ST. GEORGE'S SOCIETY 



{MONTREAL). 



[Presented September 3.] 



Mr. President and Associates, — It has fallen to my lot, as representing St. 

 George's Society of this city, to tender you a hearty welcome to our shores, and 

 to couple it with the hope that the event which has called you together may be 

 productive of much good to yourselves, and be the means of making the world 

 wiser and better. It may not be out of place to say a few words for your informa- 

 tion in reference to the society which I have the honour of representing. It was 

 founded fifty years ago, so that it is one of the oldest (if not the oldest) of our 

 national societies, by a few benevolent and charitably disposed Englishmen, for the 

 purpose of affording material aid and counsel to poor English immigrants in this 

 country ; it has existed to the present day, doing its work with varied success, and 

 endeavouring to carry out the intentions of its founders. It knows neither creed, 

 politics, or colour in its work, and the only qualification it is necessary for the 

 needy stranger to have to entitle him to its benefits is, that he be an Englishman. 

 Allow me again to welcome you, and to express the wish that when the purpose of 

 yourself and confreres has been accomplished, you may return in safety to the dear 

 old land, the home of our fathers, with renewed health and strength, so that you 

 may be enabled to carry on to greater perfection the important work you are 

 engaged in. 



APPENDIX II. 



FOUNDATION OF A MEDAL AT THE McGILL UNIVERSITY, 

 MONTREAL, IN COMMEMORATION OF THE VISIT OF 

 THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION TO CANADA. 



During the meeting of the British Association at Montreal, it occurred to some 

 of the members that the foundation of a prize at the McGill University would be 

 a not inappropriate memorial of the visit, and a slight acknowledgment of the 

 generous hospitality with which the Association had been greeted in the Dominion 

 of Canada. The idea, once started, was warmly espoused by the members in 

 Montreal ; it was agreed to provide funds for the award of a medal, and of a sum 

 of money as an exhibition, yearly, for proficiency in Applied Science, that subject 

 being without any special prize in the University, and one which seemed cognate 

 to the purposes of the Association. Lord Eayleigh, President of the Association, 

 kindly undertook to act as treasurer, and Messrs. W. Topley and H. T. Wood 

 gave their services as secretaries. The Subscription list, commenced at Montreal, 

 has continued open to the present time, with the result annexed. At the general 

 meeting held in London on November 12, 1884, the Council proposed that the ex- 

 pense of procuring a die for the medal should be provided out of the funds of the 

 Association, and the amount subscribed transmitted to the authorities at Montreal 

 through its officers ; this proposal was cordially approved bv the General Committee. 

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