IV ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



SECTION II. 



ENGLISH HISTORY, LITERATURE, ARCH.EOLOGT, ETC. 



I. Brest on the Quebec Labrador. By S. E. Dawson, Litt. D., 



(Plates) 3 



II. The late Arthur Harvey, F.R.S.C. and E.A.^^.O. By 

 Stephen -Blackburn. Communicated by Dr. S. E. 

 Dawson 31 



III. A Review of the Founding and Development of the University 



of Toronto as a Provincial Institution. By Kev. Dr. 



N. BuRWA^H 37 



IV. Origin of the French Canadians (with map). By B. Sulte. 99 



SECTION III. 

 mathematical, physical and chemical sciences. 



I. Some Properties of the a Rays from Radium. (Diagrams.) 



By E. EUTHERFOP.D 3 



II. On the Determination of the Constituents of Gluten. By 



Thomas Macpari.ane 17 



III. On the Composition of some Montreal Minerals. By B. J. 



Harrington, M.A., LL.D 25 



IV. P hysico- chemical Researches from the Macdonald Chemistry 



and Mining Building, McGill University. By J. 



Wallace Walker 29 



V. Solar and Lunar Cycles Lîiplied in the Prophetic Numbers 



in the Book of Daniel. By Dr. W. Bell Dawson... 33 

 VI. Recent Experiments in the Nitrogen- enrichment of Soils. 

 By Frank T. Shutt, M.A., F.I.C, and A. T. Cuarron, 

 M.A 53 



VII. Researches in Physical Chemistry carried out in the Univer- 



sity of Toronto during the past year. Communicated 



by Prop. W. Lash Miller 65 



VIII. The Volhard Method for the Determination of Chlorine in 



Potable Waters. By Frank T. Shutt, M.A., F.I.C, 



anil H. W. Charlton, B.A.Sc G7 



IX. Preliminary Experiments with a Cyannmide Compound as a 

 Nitrogenous Fertilizer. By Frank T. Shutt, M.A., 



F.I.C, and H. W. Charlton. B.A.Sc 73 



X. Bibliography of the Life and Works of Simon Newcomb. 

 By E. C Archibald. Communicated b3' Dk. S. E. 

 Dawson 79 



