1899-91.] FIRST MEETING. 5 



tage to have newspaper men attend the weekly meetings, but reporters 

 •cannot attend on Saturday night. 



Mr. Arthur Harvey would rather look to the labours of the few to form 

 the strength of the Institute than to the accession of the many. He did 

 ;not think that its prosperity was to be advanced by courting popularity. 

 He referred to the large amount of valuable work that had already been 

 done. He said that Mr. Boyle had not alluded to the fact that it was on 

 the action of the Institute that the Provincial Government had made the 

 grant for archaeological purposes. The Canadian Institute of the future 

 should have nothing to do with anything but the consideration and dis- 

 cussion of the subjects which were brought before it. It was on these 

 lines that other important and valuable societies had worked. He had 

 ■viewed with a good deal of interest the movement that Mr. Howland and 

 his friends had inaugurated for obtaining the Upper Canada College 

 grounds in conjunction with the other societies mentioned. 



Mr. Pearce, in reference to what Mr. Boyle had said about handing 

 •over the museum to Toronto University, could not agree to the surrender 

 ■of that portion of it that belonged to the Biological Section. As to the 

 matter of obtaining funds, he recollected calling on 30 or 40 out of a list 

 of 82 merchants, and did not succeed in getting more than five dollars. 

 The efforts for getting up a conversazione last year had failed through 

 the inability to raise the requisite funds. He was in favour of a location 

 for the Institute further up town. Somewhere nearer the University would 

 be much more convenient. He recommended that enquiries should be 

 made about the lot on McCaul street that had been referred to. 



Mr. Dewar was not in favor of removing to another locality. He 

 thought that one near the University would not be so convenient for 

 strangers in the city. He would like to see the professors and other men 

 of eminence in scientific pursuits attend the meetings and take a more 

 active part in the proceedings. 



Mr. Squair: If the Institute was located farther up in the city, and 

 nearer to where he lived, he would attend oftener, but it would not be wise 

 to move for the sake of benefiting some when it may inconvenience 

 ■others. He was altogether opposed to raising the amount of the annual 

 subscription to ten dollars ; he thought four dollars was quite enough. As 

 to the want of prosperity, it would be necessary to look deeper for the 

 causes. This was not a scientific country, and a good deal of the work 

 of the Institute, though valuable in itself, did not interest any large 

 body of the public. He referred to the amount of very valuable work 

 that had been done by the active members. As to the Philological Sec- 



