REPORT OF SOCIETY'S MEETINGS. 793 
ship but he hoped that his conneétion with the Journal 
would not cease. 
Mr. Rodway said he was quite prepared to give back 
the editorship to Mr. Quelch when he returned. 
Mr. Conrad thought the letter should have been brought 
before a General Meeting. 
Mr, Watt said he took it that an omission had been 
made in not intimating the change to the General 
Meeting. 
Mr. Legge thought there was some misapprehension, 
as according to the rules it was under the Committee of 
Correspondence and any intimation of a change in the 
editorship would have been simply a matter of courtesy 
and not of right. 
The Chairman said the letter had been considered and 
accepted by the Dire€tors and it was probably an omis- 
sion on their parts, that it had not been laid before the 
General Meeting. The matter might be left over until 
Mr. Quelch’s return. 
Mr. AEneas Mackay said he should like to ask if the 
Direétors had in view any public reception, in the form 
of a banquet, dinner or something of the kind, to Mr. 
Quelch on his return to the colony. 
The Chairman said he could not answer that question 
but thought that a notice of motion should be given 
Later, Mr. Jacob Conrad handed in the following 
notice of motion :— 
“ That a Committee of this Society, consisting of the Hons. Dr. 
Carrington and Arthur Weber, Mr. F. A. Conyers, Revd. D. J. Reynolds, 
Mr. Thomas Watt and the mover be appointed to consider and carry 
out a public reception to Mr. John Joseph Quelch, on his return to the 
colony from Chicago as Commissioner to the World’s Columbian Exposi- 
tion, with power to add to their number. 
