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perfect pictures should not be placed before them. He thought that 
they could not comprehend a finished and perfect picture and that it 
would be better to give them something simple. 
SIXTH. MEETING 
Sixth Meeting, 12th December, 1891, the President in the chair. 
Donations and exchanges since last meeting, 117. 
Mr. J. A. Fowler was elected a member. 
A committee was appointed to co-operate with the committee of the 
Ontario Society of Artists in their endeavours to obtain some portion of 
the Upper Canada College buildings for art and science purposes. 
The Committeé on Lake Currents appointed last session was con- 
tinued, with power to add to their number. 
Mr. A. F. Chamberlain, M.A., late of Toronto, now of Clark Univer- 
sity, Worcester, Mass., was appointed to represent the Canadian Institute 
at the meeting of the American Folk-Lore Society, which will be held 
at Washington on the 29th and 30th December inst. 
Mr. W. A. Douglass, B.A., read a paper on “The Finances of the 
American Civil War.” 
SEVENTH MEETING. 
Seventh Meeting, 19th December, 1891, the President in the chair. 
Donations and exchanges since last meeting, 50. 
Messrs. Samuel McAllister, C. C. James, and H. R. Cockin were 
elected members. 
The following resolution, sent up by the Historical section :—“ That 
the members of this section consider that the setting apart and proper 
maintenance of a portion of the public domain as a national park would 
much conduce to the fostering of patriotic feeling as well as be a means 
of increasing interest in Canada abroad, and therefore resolve that the 
Institute be requested to memorialize the Dominion and Local Govern- 
ments to the end that such action may be taken as will result in this 
object,’ was referred to the Council. 
Mr. Levi J. Clark read a paper on “ Testing the New Water Pipe,” in 
which he briefly described the construction and laying of the pipe, and 
its history since it came into use. The method of ascertaining the amount 
