2 TRANSACTIONS. 1 897-8. 



It may perhaps be interesting to give the last course of 

 lectures : 



1897-8. 



Nov. 12. — Fridtjof Nansen, - . . " North Pole." 



" 19.— B. Suite, - - "The Meaning of Ottawa." 



" f A. Lampman, ----- Reading 



" I W. J. Sykes, " Plea for higher type of literature." 



(Literary and Musical Evening.) 



Dec. 3. — George Johnson, - " Place names of Canada." 

 " 17. — Professor S. W. Dyde, - "Paradise Lost." 



Jan. 7. — Rev. Dr. J. B. Saunders, - - " Anthropology." 

 " 21. — Joseph Pope, - - - " Samuel Pepys." 



Feb. I.— J. M. Macoun, - - - " The Fur Seal." 



" 18. — Wm. Ogilvie, " The Yukon and its gold resources." 



Mar. I. — Thos. Macfarlane, "The utilization of moss lands." 



As the range of the publication now initiated covers the 

 whole field of science there is no reason why it should not 

 become the medium for the record of much of the original 

 work carried on by the scientific branches of the govern- 

 ment, which otherwise might not see the light of day. 



When the library of the Society is established upon 

 its proper basis, it will probably become one more for refer- 

 ence than for g-eneral readinsf. 



That social element, the attrition of thought and intel- 

 lect by intercourse among the members, requires fostering, for 

 neither the library nor the reading-room affords such oppor- 

 tunity. Thinking men without some social tie are starved 

 intellectually. 



We may perhaps hope that in- future it may be possible 

 to have two courses of lectures, one of a popular nature, 

 the other more technical. 



