26 TRANSACTIONS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. [ VoL. IMU: 
SEVENTEENTH MEEPING: 
Seventeenth Meeting, 12th March, 1892, the President in the chair. 
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Donations and Exchanges since last meeting, 53. 
The following were elected members :—Prof. Ashley, R. W. Spence, 
Lancelot Middleton, C.E., and James T. Locke. 
The President gave a report of the interview of the deputation on 
“Peach Yellows” with the Minister of Agriculture. 
The following resolution was adopted :— 
“1. That special investigations into the cause of the disease known as 
‘Peach Yellows’ have been made by Dr. W. R. Shaw, a member of this 
Institute. 
“2, That a committee of the Institute has waited upon the Provincial 
Government, with whom appeared also representatives of the Lincoln 
Farmers’ Institute, the Niagara District Fruit Growers’ Association, and 
of the Ontario Fruit Growers’ Association. 
“3. That this deputation asked for amendments in the existing laws 
on the subject, and had a very favorable reception. 
“4, But that one cause of infection appears to be the introduction of 
young trees from the United States, grown from ‘pips’ from infected 
fruit, and that such young trees, if they come to maturity so as to bear 
fruit for a year or two, must in the end succumb to the disease and be 
the means of contagion to other orchards. 
“s. That the Institute therefore prays for the enactment of a law to 
prevent, under proper regulations (to be made by the Governor-General 
in Council), the importation of any peach trees or other young fruit trees 
unless a clean bill of health accompany, to certify that no disease exists 
in the districts from which such young trees come, with a proper guaran- 
tee that no disease is inherent in such young stock, in the same way as 
enacted by the State of California and other places interested in main- 
taining the integrity of their orchards. 
“6, That the Secretary be instructed to send a copy of this resolution 
to the Department of Agriculture at Ottawa, with copies of Dr. Shaw’s 
paper.’ 
Mr. H. Rushton Fairclough, M.A., read a paper on “ Lieut.-Col. Coffin 
and his private correspondence during the rebellion of 1837.” He pointed 
out that the subject of his paper (Wm. Foster Coffin) was the son of a 
major in H. M. 15th Regiment of Infantry, and grandson of a distinguished 
U. E. Loyalist, to whom General Sir Guy Carleton attributed much of 
