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Be tliis all as it may, Canada, as a whole, and Toronto 

 and Montreal in particular, were delighted to welcome the 

 members of the British Association for the Advancement 

 of Science and the British Medical Association who had 

 travelled so far to hold their meetings here. We were glad 

 of an opportunity of returning the hearty welcome 

 accorded our representatives to the Jubilee celebrations, 

 and we modestly think that the opportunity was not lost. 



It is with the work of the British Association for 

 the Advancement of Science that the readers of the 

 Kecokd are more particularly interested, and elsewhere 

 we publish some of the principal addresses. The splendid 

 arrangements made for the meetings by the people of 

 Toronto, the programme of the meetings themselves, the 

 excursions so well planned and carried out — these we 

 cannot here dwell upon. Suffice it to say that the Queen 

 City's reception was regal and was appreciated ; it has all 

 been exhaustively reported in the daily press. 



On the way to Toronto the Association was not allowed 

 to pass unrecognized. The steamer " Parisian," of the 

 Allan Line, had been chartered to convey the members 

 across the ocean, and was boarded at Eimouski by Dr. 

 Harrington, of McGill University, who welcomed the 

 travellers to Montreal, and explained what plans had been 

 made there for their reception. On Saturday afternoon 

 the steamer arrived in Montreal, and the landing of 

 the passengers was much facilitated by an arrangement 

 made with the Customs authorities by which luggage was 

 passed without examination upon production of certificate 

 of meml)ership. Some of the " Colonials " were rather 

 amused at the appearance at dinner in the Windsor Hotel 

 that evening of one or two members in flannels, but 

 a slight delay in the conveyance of some of the luggage to 

 the hotel may have accounted for this. 



Sunday was spent in a restful way, and on Monday 

 morning a reception was tendered the Association by the 



