Excerpt from Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, for the Year 1894, Vol. 12: General Index I-XII Ever since Your Excellency and the Countess of Aberdeen have come into this country Canadians have had many evidences of the lively interest which Your Excellencies take in every subject affect ing not merely the material advantages of the Dominion, but the culture and education of the people at large. Your Excellency has the inestimable advantage of belonging to an estate of the realm which has given many great. Names to the political as well as literary history of England. Not least among those names we find that of your eminent grandfather who was once truly designated by a famous English poet, 'thc travelled Thane, Athenian Aberdeen.' Canada has had already abundant evidence from your public utterances that Your Excellency inherits the tastes of your distinguished family, and that it will be your desire to develop among us that high culture without which no country can ever become truly great. It is with deep interest that the Royal Society has noted the ability and energy with which Her Excellency the Countess of Aberdeen is identifying herself with a national movement which must tend to make the women of Canada far more important factors than they ere\now in the social and intel lectual life of this new country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.