424 Canadian Record of Science. 



The Royal Society of Canada. 



The Sixth Annual Meeting of the Eoyal Society of Can- 

 ada was held at Ottawa on the 20th of May. The attend- 

 ance was fairly large, Section IV. being most strongly 

 represented both by papers presented and by members 

 attending. Among the general measures introduced, it is 

 gratifying to note that initial steps were taken, looking to 

 the establishment of a Society Library. 



The address of the President, Eev. T. E. Hamel, which 

 was delivered at the opening of the Wednesday evening 

 meeting, dealt chiefly with the present condition of scien- 

 tific education and the choice of suitable vocations by 

 young men. Referring to the opportunities for scientific 

 education in Canada, he urged the necessity of giving this 

 important question much more attention than has been 

 bestowed upon it in the past. 



The officers elected for the following year were : — 



President — Dr. G-. Lawson, of Halifax. 



Vice-President — Sandford Fleming, C.E., of Ottawa. 



Secretary — Dr. J. G. Bourinot, of Ottawa. 



Treasurer — Dr. J. A. Grant, 



Of the Sections, the presidents elected were : — 



I, M. Faucher de St. Maurice, of Quebec ; IT, Rev. Dr. 

 G. M. Grant, of Kingston ; III, Dr. T. Sterry Hunt, of Mon- 

 treal ; IV, Dr. Robert Bell, of Ottawa. 



In opening Section III, the President, Mr. Thos. Macfar- 

 lane. read an address on " The Utilization of Waste." He 

 referred particularly to improvements made during the last 

 twenty-five years at the Friburg Iron Works, where all 

 arsenical, sulphurous and other fumes are now condensed 

 and converted into merchantable articles, which yield a 

 fair return on the cost of production. The lands surround- 

 ing these works are now cropped profitably, whereas in 

 former years the iron masters were obliged to pay heavy 

 sums for damage done by the wasted and noxious vapors. 

 The separation of phosphorus from iron and the direct 

 application of the phosphated slag as a fertilizer, as now 

 being done at Middleburgh, was mentioned as an instance 



