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the student of history and ethnography. The negro is regarded in a 

 different h'ght by different tribes of American aborigines. After 

 mentioning a few isolated instances of contact in other parts of the 

 United States, the writer proceeded to discuss the relations of African 

 and Indian mythology, coming to about the same conclusion as Prof. T. 

 Crane, that the Indian has probably borrowed more from the negro than 

 has the negro from the Indian. The paper concluded with calling the 

 attention of the members of the Institute to the necessity of obtaining 

 with all possible speed information regarding • — (i) The results of the 

 intermarriage of Indian and negro ; the physiology of the offspring of 

 such unions. (2) The social status of the negro among the various 

 Indian tribes ; the Indian as a slave-holder. (3) The influence of Indian 

 upon negro and negro upon Indian m\-thology. 



TWELFTH MEETING. 



Twelfth Meeting, 31st January, 1891, Dr. Kennedy in the chair. 



Donations and Exchanges 48. 



A letter was read from the Governor- General's secretary, acknowledg- 

 ing the receipt of a communication from the institute on the subject of 

 " Cosmic Time," and conveying the information that, in accordance with 

 the suggestion of the Council of the Canadian Institute, his Excellency 

 is taking steps with a view of bringing the correspondence which has 

 passed relative to this matter to the notice of foreign powers, through her 

 Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. 



A paper on " Canadian Art of To-day " was read by Mr. J. W. L. 

 Forster. He gave a list of brilliant Canadian names in the art 

 roll of other nations — The Smillie brothers, Leclear, Woodward, Rattray, 

 Sandham, Eraser, Walker, Glazebrook, Shannon, Peel, and others. During 

 those years our field has been occupied by men from the old world — 

 Bull, Hoppner Meyer, Paul Kane, Hamel, Krieghoff, Wandsworth, 

 Westmacott, March, Hunt, Gush, Sawyer, Fowler, Creswell, Berthon, and 

 many more. " Pilgrims, as all our fathers were," yet they helped to 

 plant a stem in the soil of our country from whose vintage we drink to- 

 day. Their style was mostly that of the British artists of their day. 

 Their patrons were men whose tastes were the outgrowth of the same 

 associations. Exhibitions held within the fresh memory of many were 

 filled with examples of that careful academic work. Though the old 

 tastes have largely died away with the old legacies that sustained them. 



