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well acquainted with art, but they lacked the power of expressing their 

 ideas. In order to have a national art we must have a national senti- 

 ment. There were a large number of historical subjects relating to 

 Canada that were never touched by our artists. If Canadian artists 

 would give us such works they would soon find a revolution in art. 



Mr. Forster said, in regard to competent art criticism, there was no lack 

 of men with the true inwardness of art and the power of conveying their 

 ideas, but the remuneration afforded by our magazines was not such as 

 to induce them to take up the subject. He hoped that men of the right 

 stamp would soon enter the arena. 



Mr. Revell read a paper by Mr. i\rthur Harvey, advocating the estab- 

 lishment of a national school of art, shewing its importance and possi- 

 bility, and pointing out the vast range of subjects in nature, and historical 

 incidents that awaited the genius of the Canadian artist. He also 

 referred to the benefits to be derived by artists from contact with scien- 

 tific and literary men, and the study of various branches of science. He 

 instanced the case of an artist who was better able to paint the clouds 

 from a knowledge of meteorology. So in geology and other branches 

 of science. 



THIRTEENTH MEETING. 



Thirteenth Meeting, 7th February, 1891, the President in the chair. 



Donations and Exchanges 157. 



The council reported the election of Mr. Harvey A. Hunter as an 

 associate, and the following associates were elected members : — Herbert 

 H. Brown, John L. Jackson, J. Maughan, Jr., and Ernest C. TyTrell. 



A communication was read from " L'Academie Royale des Sciences, 

 des Lettres, et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique," announcing the death of 

 its permanent Secretary, M. le Lieutenant-General en retraite, Jean- 

 Baptiste Joseph Liagre, ancien Ministre de la guerre, &c. 



The committee of the Institute entrusted with the duty of complying 

 with the request of the Hon. the Attorney-General and other members 

 of the Government of Ontario, to be informed what historical documents 

 the Institute thought worthy of the consideration of the Government, 

 with a view to their publication, presented their report. They enclosed 

 a letter from Mr. Douglass Brymner, the archivist of the Dominion at 

 Ottawa, in answer to a communication from the committee, which they 

 recommended to be submitted to the Government. 



