PROCEEDINGS FOR 1896 XLVII 



1896. 



Jan. 18— •■ The Under-Currents of Historv,' Miss Mary Alignes Fitz- 



Gibbon. 

 Jan. 18 — " Sun Spots," G. G. Purse}-. 



Jan. 25—" The Forests and Trees of Canada," J^obert Bell, LL.D., M.D. 

 Feb. 1—'' Wales and its Literature," Eev. Neil MacNish, JID.L. ; read 



by Dr. Kennedy. 

 Feb. 1—" The Celt in Ancient Eoypt and Babylonia," Rev. Prof. 



Campbell, LL.D. ; read by the secretary. 

 Feb. 8—' The Intestinal Absorption of Iron." T. VV. Gr. Maekay, M.B. 

 Feb. 8 — •' The New Photography " or " The properties of the Koentgen 



X-Eays," F. J. Smale, Ph.D. 

 ^ eb. 15—'' The New Ontario," Archfbald Blue. 

 Feb. 15 — " The French Language of Lower Canada," Prof. M. L. 



(Queneau. 

 Feb. 22—" The Evolution of Teeth," illustrated by lantern slides, Prof. 



R. Eamsay Wright, M.A., B.Sc. 

 Feb. 22—-' Lake Levels," E. F. Stupart. 

 Feb. 29—" The Algonkin Park," W. Houston, M.A. 

 March 7 — Meeting in the University Chemical Jjaboratory. " Theory of 



Gas Batteries, F. J. Smale, B.A.. Ph.D. ; " The Electric 



Spark in High Vacua," "On the New Photography." 



copiously illustrated by experiments and photogi'aphs, J. 



C. McLennan, B.A. 

 March 14 — " Cession of Canadian Territory and Fisheries by the Treaty 



of Independence, 1*783," Thomas Hodgins, M.A., Q.C. 

 March 21 — " Experimental Phonetics," with exhibitions and demonstra- 

 tions, by Eousselot's Apparatus," Prof. H. Schmidt- Warten- 



berg, Ph.D., of the Universit}^ of Ciiicago. 

 March 28—" The Cabots," Prof. G. M. Wrong, M.A. 

 March 28— " The Seasons in Hudson's Straits," F. F. Payne. 

 April 4 — " A Slave Eescue in Niagara Sixty Years Ago," Miss Janet 



Carnochan. 

 April 4 — " The Development of Personal Libert}' under British Jjaw," 



J. C. Hamilton, M.A., LL.B. 

 April 11—" The Blackfoot Language," Part L, Eev. John Maclean, Ph.D.; 



read b}' Mr. Jas. Bain, jr. 

 April 11 — " Eecent Doings in Gaelic Literature," Eev. Neil MacNish, 



LL.D. ; read by the president. 

 April 18 — " Some Modern Views of the Ego and Non-Ego," Prof. D. 



Clark, M.D. 

 April 18 — " The History of the Development of our Knowledge of the 



Nervous System," illustrated by the lantern, Prof. A. 



Primrose, M.B. 



