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Rh Club, and Colonel the Hon. A. Laussedat, of the Geographical Society of Paris. Associate members are those who may not or may be able to qualify as active members, yet who wish to strengthen the Club by contributing twenty-five dollars annually to its maintenance. The first to volunteer as an associate member was Mr. J. D. Patterson, Woodstock, a well-known climber. Sir Sandford Fleming, and Mr. Wm. Whyte, Second Vice-President, Canadian Pacific Railway Company, followed, and then the Rev. C. W. Gordon, D.D., and E. B. Drewry, Esq. To these original associate members, other five have been added during the year. Active members are those who have made an ascent of at least 10,000 feet above sea level in some recognized alpine region; or those who have contributed to Canadian Alpine literature by scientific publications, based upon personal experience. Graduating members are those not yet qualified for active membership, but who are given two years to become so. This probation is not renewable under the auspices of the Club. Subscribing members are those who wish to keep in touch with the Club by receiving its reports and other literature. They have no other privileges. Active members pay $5.00 annually, or $50.00 for a life membership. We have one life member—Professor Herschel C. Parker of Columbia University. The annual fee for graduating and subscribing members is $2.50 and $2.00 respectively.

The Constitution provides for a summer camp in some strategic place, where graduating members may qualify for active membership, and all except subscribing members may foregather for climbing and mountain study. The first session of this school of mountaineering was held July 9-16, 1906, on the summit of the Yoho pass, between two grey rock-peaks, by the margin of a mountain tarn of purest emerald-green, the most limpid and radiant eye that alplands ever opened to see blue sky, withal. Forty-four graduated to active membership and one hundred or more members were in attendance at some time during the week. Eight high mountains were climbed and daily excursions made to contiguous points of interest, and into the Yoho valley to the Wapta glacier, where metal plates were set out to measure its movement.

For the unqualified success of this first annual "meet" of the Club, first credit is due to the President, whose generalship, including a patient and amiable faculty for detail, won enconiums from all. Thanks to Mr. Wheeler, the "meet," which began as an experiment, ended as an institution. Hearty thanks are owing to many others, but notably to Mr. J. D. Patterson; to the Dominion and Alberta Governments; to the C. P. R. Company, the Royal North-West Mounted Police, the Superintendent of the National Park; and last but not least, to those fine fellows and true lovers of the hills, the men in buckskin—our mountain outfitters. Without the generous help of all these, the Yoho camp had not been possible.

The next session of this charming summer school will be in Paradise valley, where there are a score and more glacier mountains near at hand. The present indications are that the attendance will be much larger than last year. The camp will