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of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania ; of the Massa- 

 chusetts Historical Society ; of the SocUU Ame'ricaine de 

 France; of the New Brunswick Historical Society; of the 

 Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia ; of the 

 American Historical Association, Saratoga ; of the American 

 Philosophical Society, Philadelphia ; of the Society of Cana- 

 dian Literature, Montreal ; of the Folk-Lore Society of 

 Montreal 5 of the Natural History Society of Montreal 5 of 

 the Audubon Society of the United States ; of the Trinity 

 Historical Society, Dallas, Texas. His last diploma, was one 

 recently received naming him President of the Quebec Com- 

 mittee of the Alliance Scientifique of France, composed of 

 J. M. LeMoine, President, Honb. Judge A. B. Routhier, Jos. 

 Edmond Roy, F. R. S. C., Dr. N. E. Dionne, F. R. S. C, Ernest 

 Gagnon. In 1882 he became a corresponding member of the 

 American Ornithologist Union. 



In 1885, at the instance of a distinguished French naturalist, 

 Mr. Lescuyer, Mr. LeMoine's name was put forward to attend 

 in Vienna the Permanent International Committee of the 

 European Ornithologists organized under the auspices of His 

 Royal Highness, the archduke Rodolphe and presided by a 

 celebrated European savant, Dr. Rodolf Blasius, a similar 

 distinction having been offered to the Washington ornitho- 

 logist Dr. Hart Meriam which he accepted. 



However the call of duty kept Mr. LeMoine at home 5 he 

 was thus deprived from participating in a most distinguished 

 honor, tendered to very few on this continent. 



Probably, the distinction, he prized the most, was his selec- 

 tion by the Marquis of Lome to organize, with the assistance 

 of Mr. Faucher de Saint Maurice, the French section of the 

 Royal Society of Canada and his subsequent unanimous elec- 

 tion as its first president. 



The Transactions of this learned association since 1882, 

 each year, contain an elaborate essay of Mr. LeMoine on 

 some department or other of Canadian history. 



In 1887, he read, by special invitation, before the Canadian 

 club of New- York, a memoir : Madame de Champlain, 

 Madame de la Tour, Mdlle de Vercheres, the Canadian heroines. 



An intimacy of many years standing and access had to his 

 papers, &c, has furnished me with accurate data about the 

 historian of Quebec. 



I recall to memory, no more pleasant episode in his lite- 

 rary career than the surprise prepared for him by the elite 

 of the Quebec gentry, whose homes Mr. LeMoine had so 

 happily and so graphically described, when they presented 

 him, in 1882, at the Garrison club, during a champagne lunch, 

 a Dominion Flag, for the new tower of Spencer Grange, with 

 a suitable address. 



