1891-92]. TENTH MEETING. i 
On a communication from Dr. Rosebrugh the following resolution was 
adopted :— 
“ That we heartily approve of the ten resolutions adopted by the Provin- 
cial Prison Reform Conference held in Toronto, November 27th, 1891; 
that the same are commended to the favourable consideration of our 
legislators, both Dominion and Provincial, and that copies of this resolu- 
tion be forwarded to the Hon. Sir John Thompson, Minister of Justice, 
and to the I1on. Oliver Mowat, Attorney-General, Province of Ontario, 
and to the Press for publication.” 
Mr. George E. Atkinson was elected a member. 
Mr. William Houston, M.A., read a paper on “ Economic Science for 
Canadian Students.” 
Mr. Harvey had listened to Mr. Houston, as he always had done, with 
the greatest pleasure. On nearly all the points he agreed with him. 
There were a few, however, on which he differed. He did not think that 
economic science was one of locality. In his opinion economic science 
did not belong to a small community, but to the brotherhood of mankind 
at large. But was there such a science as political economy? There 
was no more a science of political economy than there was of literature. 
There could be no exact science of either. Behind all this was the ques- 
tion, What was truth? ‘The idea of what was truth was continually 
changing except in the mathematics. When you come to enquire what 
was perfectly just between man and man, there was constant change. As 
to the method of investigation, the inductive method had been the most 
successful for the past 300 years. He did not think that we should 
neglect the deductive method. The former was the best when we were 
young, the latter when we were old. 
TENTH MEETING. 
Tenth Meeting, 23rd January, 1892, the President in the chair. 
Donations and Exchanges since last meeting, 66. 
A paper by Mr. Edward Jack on “The Abenakis of the St. John 
River,” was read by Mr. Macdougall. The paper deals with the history 
and legends of the tribe, gathered during many years of intercourse with 
them. They originally inhabited what is now Maine, New Hampshire, 
New Brunswick, and even a portion of Nova Scotia ; and were subdivided 
into several divisions. The principal ones took their characteristic 
names from the districts they lived in ; such as Kanibesinnoaks, “ those 
