The series consists of portraits of members of the executive, members of the Royal Society of Canada, residents, and views of activities at annual meetings. The photographs of annual meetings generally include views of presentations to individual members or to those being honoured by the Society; speeches; and luncheons or dinners. There are photographs from the meetings at Hamilton, Ont., 1962 (photographs by Tom Bochsler); Memorial University, St. John's, Nfld., 1972; University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alta., 1975; Laval University, Quebec City, Quebec, 1976 (photographs by Gerard Roger); University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Sask., 1979; Ottawa, 1982 (photographs by Fernand R. Leclair); and the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Man., 1986.
The series holds portraits of the following men and women: John Willis Ambrose; D.A. Graham; J.L. Hart; Cyril James; B.S. Keirstead; F.G. Rae; J.O. St. Clair-Sobel; Louis St. Laurent; Carleton Stanley; R.M. Wiles; M.Y. Williams; George E. Wilson; Alfred Walker; J.G. Bourinot; Mgr. Thomas E. Hamel; Sir Sandford Fleming; Mgr. J.C.R. Laflamme; George M. Dawson (copy of a painting); A.R.C. Selwyn (copy of a painting); C. O'Brien; William Clark; Louis Frechette; J.A. Grant; Benjamin Sulte; Joseph Edmond Roy; George Bryce; W.D. LeSueur; A.B. Routhier; A.B. Macallum; A.P. Coleman; J. Playfair McMurrich; Thomas Chapais; J.C. McLellan; James H. Coyne; Francis Lloyd (copy of a drawing); J.V. Wright; Watson Kirkconnell; Roy Daniells; B.K. Sandwell; C.E. Dolman; R.E. Folinsbee (Cantelon, Edmonton); R.E. Bell (Learie (?), Montreal); J. Tuzo Wilson (Karsh, Ottawa); Leo Moser; Louis Baudoin; K.C. Fisher (Gerald Campbell Studios, Toronto); P.S. Warren; R. Flenley (John Steele, Toronto); W.H. Hatcher; John Campbell Sproule; E.M. Walker; W.S. Wallace; F.R. Miller; K.J.S. DeLury; R. Tanghe (Studio C. Marcil, Ottawa); Grvoesoves (?); W.W. Moorhouse; L.E. Kirk; Duncan Alexander MacGibbon; Diamond Jenness; Humfrey Michell (Hubert Beckett); Andrew Hunter; Landon (Bill Barrett, London); H.G. Thode (Hubert Beckett); T.W.M Cameron; Rawson; J.H. McDunnough; R.H. Clark (Artona Studios, Vancouver); A.H. Miller; G.E. Britnell; Cyril W. Knight (Ashley & Crippen, Toronto); J.D. Ketchum; E.W. McHenry (Ashley & Crippen, Toronto); C.H.O. Donoghue; Lorne Luise; R.M. Anderson; E.H. Strickland; O. Magss; N.W. Grace; G.S.H. Barton; H.T. Gussow; T. Larsen; John Cameron; Jean Désy (Karsh, Ottawa); Victor Morin; Chester New (Carey Studio, Hamilton); J.M. Nadeau; K.W. Neatby; J.K. Robertson (Karsh, Ottawa); A. Gibson; Sidney Smith (Gilbert Milne, Toronto); M. Beauchesne; Jean Chauvin; Charles Camsell; W.E. McNeill (copy of a painting); V.W. Cone (Karsh, Ottawa); G. Vibert Douglas; Pierre Masson; R.B. Miller; Larkin Kerwin (Gaby, Montreal); Herbert Marshall; R.A. MacKay; H.A. Logan; Jules Léger; J.D. Leechman; William Joffé; M.J.S. Innis; J.E. Gill; A.G. Dorland; John George Diefenbaker; Clifford Austin Curtis; W.R. Campbell; Neil Campbell; Marcel Cadieux; Brouillette; J.M. Boissonnault; D. Bindra; Audet; Marc-Adélard Tremblay; W.H. Trethewey; W.L. Morton; George McLeod Brownell; T. Johnson; A.G. Lockhead; E. Porsild; Donald F. Coates; B. Wilkinson; J.E. Thomson; L.I. Pugsley; N. Haring; C.H. Goulden; R.E. Foerster; V. Dolmage; J. Buly; J.H. Parkin; Lloyd Dines; G.W. Simpson; Germaine Guèvremont (André Larose); H.J. Fraser (Feature Four, Toronto); Leonard S. Klinck (Fred S. Schiffer, Vancouver); W.S. Fox (Bill Barrett, London); Donald Jonathan MacNeill; Bill Walter; A.F.C. Stevenson; E.G.R. Ardagh; Edgar C. Black; Norma Ford Walker (Cavouk, Toronto); Blackie; C.D. Niven; J.W. Bain (Ashley & Crippen, Toronto); R.M. Wills; D.A. Graham; J.L. Hart; George Earl Wilson; J.W. Ambrose; Robert MacIver; Lloyd Williams; R.J. Rossiter; Brian Hocking; Jean Boucher; Hilda Neatby; H.A. Heilbronn; Ken Taylor; H.B. Speakman; A.G. Huntsman; A.H. Hutchinson; S.W. MacNutt; Victorien Fredette (André Larose); John J. Deutsch; E.A. Hodgson; R.A. Wardle; Eric Baer; Eugène L'Heureux; Orville F. Denstedt; H.C. Rickaby; Desmond Pacey; Daniells; Langford; Antonio Cantero; Bernard; John Porter; Léon Lorrain (André Larose); C.S. Beals; A.B. McLay (James C. Fish, Hamilton); William J. Rose; F.H. Anderson (Ballard & Jarrett, Toronto); Heichelheim; Georges Vanier (Karsh, Ottawa); C.D. Nelson; G.I. Duthie; R.M. Thompson; G. Krotkov (Wallace Berry, Kingston); J.W. Laverdière; Pierre Baillargeon; Infeld; E.S. Archibald; J.A. Gray (Walter Stoneman, London, England); Harrison; E.S. Moore; H.L. Bronson; Vincent Massey (Karsh, Ottawa); André Laurendeau (Marc-André Gagné, Montreal); C.M. Sternberg; Vincent Bladen; B.R. MacKay; C.A. Morrell; C.C. Lucas; Clifford Leech; and Dr. H.E. Duckworth, President, Royal Society of Canada, 1971.
See other series for photographs filed with textual records.