. The Canadian record of science. Natural history. I I Proceedings of Royal Bociety of Canada. 151 the view of pressing the matter upon the attention of the Home and Dominion Governments. The report on a scien- titic federation of the Empire had been discussed in corres- pondence between Sir William Dawson and Prof Stokes, President of the Eoyal Society of London, and the matter of the International Geological Congress had been referred to Section lY. During the past year, forty-five memoirs had been published by the Society, out of about seventy read. In his address last year he had called at
. The Canadian record of science. Natural history. I I Proceedings of Royal Bociety of Canada. 151 the view of pressing the matter upon the attention of the Home and Dominion Governments. The report on a scien- titic federation of the Empire had been discussed in corres- pondence between Sir William Dawson and Prof Stokes, President of the Eoyal Society of London, and the matter of the International Geological Congress had been referred to Section lY. During the past year, forty-five memoirs had been published by the Society, out of about seventy read. In his address last year he had called attention to the pre- ponderance—not unlooked for—of papers in the fourth sec- tion over those especially in the sections of French and of English literature. In the new volume, this discrepancy well nigh disajjpears, and in the programme for the present yeai' there is a further increase in the literary sections, so that, apparently, the contributions of English literature have doubled, and of French trebled, in the course of two years. On the other hand, the difficulty of reaching perfection in literary production, where we are dealing with progressive science, was illustrated by the fact that of forty papcj's sub- mitted and read last year in the section for geology and biology onlj twenty-one reached the j^rinter's hands. The first section, French literature and history, was refei-red to as the special repository for choice literature and for re- searches in the very earliest Canadian history, the beginnings of Eui-opean life in Canada. The Abbe Casgrain's elaborate memoir on the Acadians was specially dwelt upon as a valuable contribution to a striking episode that bad been so invested with poetic imagery that the scalpel of science was needed to lay the truth bare. No more fitting company than the members of this Society could undertake the work, formed as they are of compatriots representing the two , using the two languages, and bound together by a hingieness of
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