APPRENDI. 
REPORTS FROM ASSOCIATED LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES 
IN CANADA. 
I.—From The Canadian Institute, through Str 8. FLEMING, K.C.M.G. 
The Council of the Canadian Institute have the honour to lay before 
the members the Fifty-first Annual Report. 
During the year 6 life, 28 ordinary and 9 associate members, 43 in 
all, were elected, and 17 names have been removed from the roll of mem- 
bers for the following reasons: by death 2, by resignation 13, and of 
members in arrears ?. Most of those in arrears might have been removed 
when the committee dealt with the list of members last year, but it was 
thought well to postpone action for one year. 
The number of ordinary meetings held was 22, at which 22 papers 
were read. These may be classified as follows :—President’s address, 
Geology, one ; Mineralogy, three ; Forestry, one ; Colour Photography, 
one ; Biology, three; Ethnology, two; Botany, one; History, one ; 
Topography, five ; Miscellaneous, six. 
The Biological Section held 11 meetings at which 11 papers were 
read. 
The publications of the Institute during the past sessions have been 
as follows: Parts 2 and 3 of Volume 2 of the Proceedings. 
The Editing Committee have met frequently in connection with the 
Memorial Volume which is now almost ready to issue from the press. 
It is confidently hoped that it will be in the hands of the members and 
the correspondents of the Institute before the close of the present session. 
The fifth ordinary meeting of the session 1899-1900 was held in the 
School of Practical Science and was also a Conversazione commemorative 
of the fiftieth anniversary of the existence of the Institute. His Ex- 
cellency the Governor-General, Major-General Hutton, the three surviv- 
ing members of the founders of the Institute, Sir Sandford Fleming, 
LL.D., K.C.M.G., Mr. Thomas Ridout and Mr. Kivas Tully were present 
with about a thousand members and visitors. 
Various letters of welcome and congratulation were read and ad- 
dresses made by the President, Lord Minto, Sir Sandford Fleming, Pro- 
fessor Maurice Hutton, the Hon. G. W. Allan and Mr. Kivas Tully. 
R Proc., 1900. E. 
