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and exterminate them. The Bceothicks were a peaceable and quiet race 

 given to hunting and fishing. They used canoes made of birch rind, 

 and of the skins of deer Hke the Esquimaux cayak. They were not 

 potters, their utensils, culinary and drinking, were of birch rind sewn 

 together by small roots of the birch. They used soap-stone dishes for 

 lamps, which were well shaped and carefully made, the form being similar 

 to that in use among the Esquimaux of the present day. They carved 

 the horn of the deer, walrus, and bones of the seal into a number of orna- 

 ments, which they wore on their dresses, and ornamented their heads 

 with combs. The carving is in triangular patterns, and out of the large 

 collection in the museum at St. John's there are not two ornaments 

 having the same pattern. The patterns seem to run in the shape of the 

 letter H. They used flint arrow heads. Their stone implements were 

 more rudely constructed than those of the Western Indians. No speci- 

 mens of wampum belts or totems or pipes exist. 



FIFTEENTH MEETING. 



Fifteenth Meeting, 21st February, 1891, the President in the chair. 



Donations and Exchanges 85. 



Professor Andrew J. Bell, Ph.D., C. H. Needier, Ph.D., and Adam. H. 

 Meyers were elected members. 



A communication was read from the Committee of Organization of 

 the Fifth International Congress of Geologists, which will be held at 

 Washington on the last Wednesday (26th) of August, 1891, containing a 

 cordial invitation to the members of the Canadian Institute, and all 

 interested in the subject, to take part in the labours of the congress. 

 The annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science, and the summer meeting of the Geological Society of America 

 will be held in the same city during the preceding week. 



W. H. Van der Smissen, M.A., read on behalf of Rev. Neil MacNish, 

 D.D., LL.D., of Cornwall, a paper entitled, •' A Review of a Work by A. 

 W. Moore, M.A., on Surnames and Place-Names of the Isle of Man." 

 This book of Mr. Moore's has recently been published, and contains very 

 useful information, not for Manxmen merely, but also for Celtic scholars 

 everywhere. " My aim," says the author, " is to give a complete account 

 of the personal names and place-names of the Isle of Man." Mr. Moore 

 is a gentleman of scholarly attainments, who has devoted much attention 



