Lecture Hall, Friday Evening, 

 December 16th, 1910 



G. PaiTy Jenkins, F.R.A.S., Vice-President, m the 

 chair. 



Present, the Executive Council and a large audience of 

 members and friends. 



Five applications proposed at last meeting were duly 

 elected. 



One application for membership presented and passed 

 on for election. 



The business being completed the President uitro- 

 duoed the lecturer o ftoh evening, Professor E. J. Kylie, 

 M.A., Toronto University. Subject, Early English Life. 



In his introductory remarks the speaker told of the 

 state of government and oivilizatiou and people under Eo- 

 man rule. The rvoroan&, he said, had built cities and roads 

 in conformity w^ith their ideas of nation building. The 

 existing conditions at the coming of the Angles aaid the 

 Saxons, he pointed out, influenced the destiny of the na- 

 tion. Tho conditions as they exist m Canada to-day would 

 go^-c4.-n the destiny of Canadians. No raco should be 

 ignored in the study of the history of the country, and the 

 Dcukhobors and Galatians should not be ovcrlwked in the 

 study of the destiny of Canada and Canadiaans. 



The rccont discoveries following excavations at Cole- 

 bridge, England, showed that there had undoubt-edly been 

 a Roman city in existence there. The civilization of the 

 Komans formed the basis of the civilizalvion of to-day, he 

 declared, and many of the institutions of the early people 

 wore preserved by the present generation. 



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