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September last, and having appointed a Secretary, proceeded to 

 add to its number some sixty of our chief citizens. These consist 

 of some of the Judges of the land, and members of the Bar, 

 Clergy, and members of the Medical Profession, Lieut. Col, 

 Munro, C. B., of the 39th Regiment, some of the Editors of the 

 Local papers, and our principal city merchants. Meetings 

 of the Committee have been held monthly until now, the 

 middle of July, when it has been decided to assemble weekly 

 until the 12th of August, the day of the meeting. The general 

 committee has been divided into five sub-committees : 1st 

 Conveyance ; 2nd. Invitation and Accomodatian ; 3rd. Places of 

 meeting and access to Public Institutions, &c. ; 4th Printing and 

 Post Office ; and 5th Finance. These Committees have all been 

 hard at work making the necessary arrangements in the respective 

 departments entrusted to them, and the diligence with which 

 they have acted and the encouragement and assistance they have 

 received from all quarters makes us believe that the meeting 

 will be a most successful one, and that Montreal is fully alive to 

 its importance. 



The Government of Canada, following the example of the State 

 authorities at Albany, have granted £500 to assist in the celebra- 

 tion ; eleven free passages have been given by the owners of the 

 ocean lines of steamboats ; the dilTerent railroads and steamboats 

 both here and in the United States have consented to carry the 

 members of the Association to and from Montreal for one fare ; 

 and a subscription has been already set on foot by our citizens 

 which promises to reach a large and liberal amount. The mor- 

 ning sessions of the Association, and its sectional meetings will be 

 held in different rooms in the new Court House ; the evening 

 entertainments will be given in the Bonsecours Hall, these buildings 

 having been placed at the disposal of the committee, gratuitously 

 for this purpose. The meetings are all open to the public, free 

 of charge. The Standing Committee will assemble in the Library 

 of the Natural History Society, Little St. James Street. The 

 Governor General, Sir Edmund Head, himself a scholar of no 

 mean pretentions, has taken a great interest in the success of the 

 meeting, and it is to be regretted that his absence in England, 

 which will likely be prolonged until October, will prevent his 

 being present personally, and taking a part in the proceedings. 

 Invitations have been sent to eminerit savans in Great Britain 

 and on the European Continent, to the munber, Including Learned 



