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one of considerable interest and importance on account of the agitation that has 

 been going on for some years in the direction of abolishing this branch of the 

 legislative power, and of the diffei'ences of opinion that have arisen as to the exact 

 nature of the tenure of the office of councillor and their rights and privileges under 

 their commission from the Crown. The discussion of this question necessarily 

 involves the tenure of the ottice of legislative councillors in other provinces as well 

 as for senators. 



5. — 'A Monograph of the Phice-Nomeiichituro of the Province of 

 New Brunswick." (Contributions to the History of the 

 Province of New Brunswick, No. II.), by William F. 

 Ganong" ; Commnnicatcd by Dr. George Stewart, F.R.G.S. 



This paper is an attempt to study philosophically and exhaustively the place- 

 nomenclature of a limited district. The subject thus treated is not a collection of 

 curious derivations, but a problem in evolution, in which racial characteristics, 

 topography and history are the chief factors. In addition to the value of such 

 studies in scientific history, and the light they actually throw upon local events, 

 there are brought out certain more practical utilities — as utilization in primary 

 education, since they deal with the connecting links between history and geography 

 — further, their value in establishing a basis for uniformity in nomenclature by 

 showing which is the correct form where uscige is divided, and finally by suggesting 

 appropriate nomenclature for the future. The paper consists of three parts. 



Part I. — An essay towards an understanding of the principles of place-nomen- 

 clature. — A study of the principles which underlie the giving, clianging, persisting 

 and extinction of place-names ; the psychological and other principles involved ; 

 correct modes of investigation ; characters of place-names. 



Part II. — The evolution of the place-nomenclature of a limited district — The 

 Province of New Brunswick. — The place-nomenclature of the successive periods of 

 exploration and occtipation — Indian, early exploreis, French Period, New England 

 Period, Loyalists, Post-Loyalist Immigrants. Characters of names given by each — 

 their relations to topography — their changes from one period to another— their 

 present correct forms. 



Part III. — A Lexicon of New Brunswick Place-Names.— An alphabetically 

 arranged list giving in synopsis the history of the names individually. 



The paper contains much original and unpublished matter, particularly relating 

 to the Indian Period. It is necessarily long, but will be condensed as much as 

 possible. 



(j. — -A New Suggestion for a Psychological Basis of Belief," b}'' 

 Prof. Ed. E. Prince ; Communicated b}' Dr. Bourinot. 

 The Ego and the Non-ego are not given in the primary act of consciousness. 

 The apprehension of the sensible world is gradual. It developes from the primitive 

 sensation, not, as is generally snjjpcsed, of resistance to voluntary movement, but 

 of non-resistance (/. e., space), and of duration (i. e., time). The consciousness of 

 voluntary power affords the original gi'ound to which is added the consciousness of 

 space and time as the true p.sychological basis of belief. 



7. — •■ Sen.se-Deception a Secondary Acquirement," by Prof Ed. E. 

 Prince ; communicated by Dr. Bourinot. 

 A study of the exercise of the senses in animals and young infants shows that 

 the reports of the .senses arc normally true; but that an intellectual element is 

 added by education and .secondary conditions, and sensations originally simple and 

 true, become complex and false. The sensations of a trained organism are thus 

 found to involve not only sensory perception but intellectual judgment, hence sense- 

 deception arises. 



