4 The Royal Society of Canada. 



proposal or recommendation. The number of corresponding: 

 members is limited to sixteen, and shall represent each section of 

 the Society. The Society will meet annually in such city of the 

 Dominion as it may determine from time to time, and may at 

 any annual meeting appoint other meetings to be held in the 

 course of the year. Every scientific or literary society in the 

 Dominion which may be selected by vote of the Society will be 

 invited by circular of the honorary secretary to elect annually 

 one of its members as a delegate to the meetings of the Society ; 

 such delegate to have during his term of office the privilege of 

 taking part in all general or sectional meetings for reading and 

 discussion of papers, and to be empowered to communicate a short 

 statement of original work done and papers published during the 

 year by his society, and to report on any matters which the .Royal 

 Society may usefully aid, in publication or otherwise. 



In addition to the Fellows of the Society, there were present 

 delegates from the various scientific and literary societies of the 

 Dominion, as well as from several societies of Britain and the 

 United States. 



THE REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 



referred to the fact that a favorable answer had been received. 



through His Excellency the G-overnor-General, to the memorial to 

 Her Majesty the Queen, asking her gracious permission to name 

 the society the Eoyal Society of Canada, and to the fact that 

 the act to incorporate the Royal Society of Canada had been 

 passed by the Dominion Parliament (a draft of the bill being em- 

 bodied in the report), and went on to state that a grant of $5,000 

 had been voted by the Dominion Parliament, and had been placed 

 at the disposal of the Society. A circular to the officers of the 

 Hudson's Bay Company, in relation to the collection of specimens 

 in geology, natural history, ethnology, &c, had been forwarded 

 to all the posts of the Company, but the practical effect of this 

 circular would greatly depend on the ability of the Society to 

 contribute to the expense of making collections and of transmit- 

 ting them to Ottawa. Invitations to send delegates to the meeting- 

 had been sent to all the local societies in the Dominion and also 

 to several English and foreign societies. A memorial had been 

 addressed to the Government on the subject of the admission of 



