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TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Officers of the Society for 1900-1901.......
List of Fellows and Corresponding Members
List of Presidents
Rules and Regulations of the Royal Society of Canada..........
PROCEEDINGS.
List of Fellows present at May meeting..
Report of Council......
1. Seal of the Royal Society.....
2. Printing of Transactions.....
Accounts
3. Stock of Transactions on hand.....
4. Election of New Fellows.......
5. Associated Societies
6. Historic Battle-Grounds......
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9. Grants to Authors for Special Scientific Investigation......
10. A Summary of Literary and Scientific Work.......
11. The Question of Copyright........
24. Decease of Fellows-Sir John William Dawson and Sir
James David Edgar (with portraits)
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Resolutions adopted
GENERAL BUSINESS.
Election of General Officers.
Report of delegation respecting National Museum......
Lecture on Insect Life
Presidential Address by Reverend Professor Clark
Bay of Fundy Tidal Differences.......
Tide Tables now used........
Tides of the Lower St. Lawrence referred to Quebec....
Pacific Coast Tide Tables.........
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VIII. Natural History Society of Montreal..............
XII. Astronomical and Physical Society of Toronto.......
XIII. Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Montreal ...
XIV. Elgin Historical and Scientific Institute.........
XV. Entomological Society of Ontario
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XVI. Natural History Society of British Columbia.......
XVII. Ottawa Literary and Scientific Society.........
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XVIII. Natural History Association of Miramichi......
XIX. Nova Scotia Historical Society.........
XX. Literary and Historical Society of Quebec
XXI. Hamilton Ladies' College Alumna Association ....
XXII. Women's Canadian Historical Society of Toronto....
XXIII. Women's Wentworth Historical Society of Hamilton
XXIV. United Empire Loyalist Association of Ontario.......
XXV. Botanical Club of Canada........
XXVI. Ottawa Field Naturalists' Club......
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TRANSACTIONS.
SECTION I
LITTÉRATURE FRANÇAISE, HISTOIRE, ARCHÉOLOGIE, ETC.
I. Les Constitutions du Canada-Etude politique. Par M.
A.-D. DECELLES...
II. Le Clergé canadien et la Déclaration de 1732. Par M.
l'abbé AUGUSTE GOSSELIN, docteur ès lettres.
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III. L'Instruction publique dans la Province de Québec. Par M.
PAUL DE CAZES......
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IV. La Seigneurie de Sillery et les Hurons de Lorette (avec
carte). Par M. LEON GERIN......
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V. The Unknown. Par M. BENJAMIN SULTE
VI. Le premier Roman canadien de sujet par un auteur canadien
et imprimé au Canada. (Illustré.) Par M. PHILEAS
GAGNON
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VII. Le Clergé protestant du Bas-Canada de 1760 à 1800. Par
M. F.-J. AUDET....
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VIII. La Mère Marie de l'Incarnation. Par M. BENJAMIN SULTE
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SECTION II.
ENGLISH HISTORY, LITERATURE, ARCHÆOLOGY, ETC.
I. Some Memories of Dundurn and Burlington Heights. (Illus-
trated.) By Sir JOHN BOURINOT, K.C.M.G., LL.D.,
D.C.L., Lit.D. (Laval).................
II. Social and Economic Conditions of the British Provinces after
the Canadian Rebellions, 1838-1840. By Sir JOHN
BOURINOT, K.C.M.G., LL.D., D.C.L., Lit.D. (Laval).
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III. Rogers, Ranger and Loyalist. Loyalist. (With portrait.) By
WALTER ROGERS, Esq., Barrister of the Inner
Temple, Loudon, England.....
IV. A Quarry and Workshop of the Stone Age in New Brunswick.
(With map.) By G. F. MATTHEW, M.A., LL.D.......
V. Diary of Nicholas Garry, Deputy-Governor of the Hudson's
Bay Company from 1822-1835. A detailed narrative
of his travels in the Northwest Territories of British
North America in 1821. With a portrait of Mr.
Garry and other illustrations......
VI. Mexican Colonies from the Canary Islands traced by Lan-
guage. (With plates.) By the Reverend JOHN CAMP-
BELL, LL.D.
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SECTION III.
MATHEMATICAL, PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL SCIENCES.
I. On the Depression of the Freezing-Point in Aqueous Solu-
tions of Electrolytes. (With diagram.) By Professor
J. G. MACGREGOR, Dalhousie College, Halifax, N.S.......
II. An Apparatus for the Determination of the Melting Point of
Fats. (With plate.) By FRANK T. SHUTT, M.A.,
F.C.S., F.I.C., and H. W. CHARLTON, B.A.Sc.........
III. On the Relative Bulk of Weak Aqueous Solutions of certain
Sulphates and their Constituent Water. By CHARLES
M. PASEA, B.SC., Dalhousie College, Halifax, N.S......
IV. On the Depression of the Freezing-Point in Solutions con-
taining Hydrochloric and Sulphuric Acids. (Illus-
trated.) By JAMES BARNES, M.A., Dalhousie College,
Halifax, N.S..............................
V. Canadian Experiments with Nitragin for Promoting the
Growth of Legumes. (Illustrated.) By FRANK T.
SHUTT, M.A., F.C.S., F.I.C., and A. T. CHARRON, B.A.
VI. Note on the Relation of the Electrical and Mechanical Units.
By HOWARD T. BARNES, M.A.Sc., D.Sc.........
VII. Note on the effect of a Change in Dissociation on the Density
Curve of a Hydrated Electrolyte in Aqueous Solutions
of Different Concentration. By HOWARD T. BARNES,
M.A.Sc., D.Sc .....
VIII. The Number of Representations of a Number as the Sum of
Two Squares. By J. H. McDONALD, B.A., University
of Toronto
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