[Footnote 58: Page 34.--At the present time there are over twenty
Canadian scientific and literary societies associated with the Royal
Society in its work. Mr. John Reade, in the "Montreal Handbook of 1891"
(see Note 56), gives the following list of societies established
before 1867: Literary and Historical Society of Quebec, 1824; Natural
History Society of Montreal, 1827--act of incorporation five years
later; Institut Canadien, Quebec, 1846; Canadian Institute, Toronto,
1851; Institut Canadien, Ottawa, 1852; Hamilton Association, 1856;
Société Historique, Montréal, 1858: Nova Scotia Institute of Natural
Science, 1862; Natural History Society, St. John, N.B., 1862;
Numismatic and Antiquarian Society, Montreal, 1862; Entomological
Society of Ontario, 1863.]