TRANSACTIONS 



OF 



THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE, 



SESSION 1890-91. 



FIRST MEETING. 



First Meeting, ist November, 1890, the President in the chair. 



Donations of books and pamphlets since last meeting, 279, including 

 151 volumes from Mrs. Seidler, and 61 volumes from Hugh Wilson, 

 F.G.S., who also presented 45 specimens of Canadian woods. 



Exchanges since last meeting, 2,042. 



The following were elected members : — A. H. F. Lefroy, M.A., Dr. 

 R. Orr, Widmer Hawke, Fred. A. T. Dunbar, Dr. Thomas Millman, J. 

 J. Murphy, C. G. Cremer, and Hugh Wilson, F.G.S. 



The Council reported the election of Frank Tweed as an associate. 



The following communication from A. H. F. Lefroy, M.A., was read 

 by Dr. Kennedy : — 



"GENERAL SIR JOHN HENRY LEFROY, K.C.M.G., C.B., F.R.S. 

 " I desire to comply with the kind request of the Canadian Institute as 

 contained in their resolution of April last, and furnish a short biographi- 

 cal notice of my father, General Lefroy, who died on April iith of 

 this year. He was a son of the Reverend John Henry George Lefroy, 

 Rector of Ashe, in the County of Hampshire, in England, and was 

 born at Crondall, in that County, in 18 17. In his 17th year he obtained 

 his commission in the Royal Artillery, one of the two scientific regiments 

 in the service, and throughout his life his energies were largely occupied 

 in scientific work, and especially in the scientific work of his profession. 

 Thus it will be seen that he did not enjoy the advantages, which he 

 esteemed so highly, of a University training. 



"In 1839 he was sent to the Island of St. Helena as director of the 

 Magnetical Observatory there. In 1842 he was chosen by the Royal 

 Society to undertake the work of a Magnetic Survey of the British 



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