JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS. 19 
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 
Your Council take pleasure in submitting their report for the 
session of 1899-1900. 
The present session has been a most successful one. The at- 
tendance at the meetings has been satisfactory, while the superior 
character ef the work of former years has been fully maintained. 
Since our last report, there have been held four meetings of the 
Council and seven of the general Association, at which the following 
papers were read and discussed : 
1899. 
Nov. 9th—‘ Inaugural Address ”—President T. W. Reynolds, M. D. 
DEc. 7th—‘ Darwinian Theory of the Tides ””—J. A. Patterson, Esq., 
M. A., 1900. 
Fes, 15th—‘‘ Money as a Factor in Trade and Commerce ”—John 
Crerar, Q. C. 
Marcu 15th—“ La Guerre des Iroquois” —Mrs. Rose Holden. 
Marcu 15th—‘‘ The Last Brigade” and ‘‘ The Riders of the 
Plains ”—Arthur Heming, Esq. 
Marcu 15th—‘“ Iroquois Ceremonial of Name Giving”—J. O. 
Brant Sero. 
APRIL 5th—‘* Religion and Insanity ”—R. Bruce Smith, M. D. 
APRIL 19th—“ Theology of Plato’s Republic’”—Rev. J. L. Gilmour, 
Phaby 
AprRIL 19th—“ Biological Notes ”—William Yates, Esq. 
May 3rd—“‘t Is the Anglo-Saxon Race Degenerating?”—Jas. Russell, 
M. D. 
May 3rd—“‘ Natural History Notes”—Wm. Yates, Esq. 
Dr. J. W. L. Burgess, F. R. S, C., has been appointed to repre- 
sent this Association at the coming meeting of the Royal Society. 
