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and called the attention of the Academy to the important work 

 -of a former valued member, Mrs. E. A. Smith, in collecting the 

 traditions of the Indian tribes of New York and Canada. 



March 31, 1890. 



Business Meeting. 



The President, Dr. Newberry, in the chair. 



About one hundred and twenty-five persons present. 



This meeting was held in the Chemical Lecture Room of the 

 School of Mines. 



The minutes of March 24th were read and approved. 



The following recommendations of the Council were then 

 read and duly approved, viz. : — 



I. To appropriate $100 to pay the Assistant Re- 

 cording Secretary, salary March, April, 

 May, 1890, $100.00 



11. Minor expenses, 40.12 



III. To transfer A. Fink, Esq., to list of Corre- 



sponding Members. 



IV. To donate to the University of Toronto all 



the duplicates now in the library, together 

 with as complete a set of the Academy pub- 

 lications as possible. 



The seventh lecture of the Public Course was then delivered, 

 entitled 



VOLTS AND AMPERES, AND WHAT THEY MEAN. 

 BY PROF. CHARLES F. CHANDLER, PH.D., OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE. 



Prof. Chandler gave a brief and interesting history of elec- 

 tricity to the present day, expUiining the various kinds of elec- 

 tricity, methods of producing them, and their application. The 

 subject of electrical measurement was clearly and briefly 

 shown by diagram. The lecture was illustrated throughout by 



