Vice-Presidents . 



PiROOËEDINGS FOR 1884. XXïX 



President , Hon. D. A. Ross. 



' George Stewart, jun. 



William Ilossack. 



Joseph Whitehead. 



C. Tessier. 



Treasurer B. Pope. 



Librarian P. C. Wurtele. 



Recording Secretary J. P. Belleaii. 



„ J- a + • fT. H.Oliver. 



Correspond i ng Secretaries i _ 



^ '^ (A. Robertson. 



Curator of Museum...., J. U. Gregory. 



Curator of Apparatus R. McLeod. 



'J. M. LeMoine. 



Members of Council. 



W. Clint. 

 J. Harper. 

 G. G. Stuart. 



XIII. Prom the Ottawa Literary and Scientific Society, through Mr. W. P. Anderson :— 



The Literary and Scientific Society of Ottawa was incorporated by act of the Ontario Legisla- 

 ture in the year 1869, which empowered two preexisting societies, the " Mechanics' Institute and 

 Athenœum " and the " Natural History Society," to unite under a new name. The "Mechanics' In- 

 stitute and Athenreum," established in 1849, had been for some years in receipt of an annual grant of 

 $300 from the Ontario Government, and this has been continued to the Literary and Scientific Society. 

 Having thus sprung fi-om two societies, one somewhat popular in its nature, and the other more 

 strictly scientific, the Literary and Scientific Society has endeavored to continue, in a certain measure, 

 the work of both. It has maintained classes of instruction, as well as courses of lectures, generally of 

 a serious character as regards the subjects treated of, and it has been fortunate in engaging for 

 these, at différent times, the services of manj^ of the foremost men in Canada, including several Fel- 

 lows of your Society. 



During the past winter the lectures delivei-ed and papers lead have been as follows : — 



1. Inaugural Address, on the Conditions of Intellectual Progress, by the President, W. D. 

 LeSueur. 



2. Lecture on the Boundary Question, by Hon. Wm. Macdougall, C.B. 



3. Paper on the Testing of Petroleum, with practical Illustrations of Tests, by Wm. P. Anderson. 



4. Paper on Some Early Canadian Explorers, by F. H. Gisborne. 



5. Essay entitled " Tour Face and Mine," by J. M. Oxley. 



6. Lecture on Music in its Analogies and Relations, by J. W. Harrison. 

 Y. Lecture on Anglo-Saxon Civilization, by J. Ilannay. 



8. Lecture on Recent Improvements in Telegraphy, by F. N. Gisborne, F.R.S.C. 



Short original Papers on Educational subjects, by Mr. J. A. McCabe, Principal of Ottawa Normal 

 School; Mr. S. Woods, Principal of the Ottawa Ladies' College; and Mr. J. C. Glashan, City Inspector 

 of Schools. The course also included a Piano-Forte Recital by Mr. Ernest White. 



The Society, which started with a Library made up of the joint libraries of the constituent bodies, 

 has devoted what funds it could spare to the purchase of new books ; and during the past year has, 

 through the liberality of friends, been able to apply nearly $500 to this object. The number of books 

 at present on the shelves is about 2,000 volumes. The Library has of late been much used by the mem- 

 bers, and, as it consists mainly of high-class works of Literature and Science, must be regarded as a very 



