40 TRANSACTIONS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. [Vox IIT. 
not longer than one month, which may be renewed for a further period of one 
month on presentation of the volume at the Institute, if in the meantime, no 
request for the same has been made by any other member. 
5. Non-resident members may obtain the loan of periodicals, exchanges or 
books, by paying the postage both ways. 
6. If any member retain a periodical or exchange from the Reading-Room 
or a book from the Library longer than the time specified, he shall be notified by 
the Librarian and shall return it at once. Any member failing to comply with 
this regulation shall forfeit his right to receive the Transactions of the Insti- 
tute. 
7. In case any book or periodical is injured or lost while in the possession 
of a member, it must be replaced by a perfect copy or an equivalent in money. 
8. No book or periodical shall be removed from the Library or Reading- 
Room without the permission of the Librarian, and the presentation of a ticket 
signed by the applicant, who shall be responsible for the books, &e., taken out 
until such ticket is cancelled. 
9. Any Member may introduce a friend, not resident in Toronto or vicin- 
ity, to the privilege of reading in the Library or Reading-Room for a period not 
exceeding one month, on entering his own name with that of the person intro- 
duced by him in a visitors’ book to be kept for that purpose, such privilege not 
to be renewed until a period of six months shall have elapsed. 
10. Any person not a member of the Institute engaged in any special 
scientific enquiry or research, may be allowed to consult the exchanges and 
books under such rules and regulations as the Council shall from time to time 
determime. 
11. The Librarian shall reserve from public circulation such periodicals, 
books, engravings, drawings, plans and other documents for reference purposes, 
as the Council may from time to time determine. 
TWENTY-SECOND MEETING. 
Twenty-second Meeting, 16th April, 1892, the President in the chair. 
Donations and Exchanges since last meeting, 43. 
George W. Grote was elected a member. 
A paper by Rev. Dr. MacNish on “Celtic Prosody” was read by Dr. 
George Kennedy. The paper, after alluding to the important place 
held in Celtic literature by poetry, dwells upon the contrast between 
Greek and Latin verse and Celtic verse, the scansion of the one depend- 
ing on quantity, that of the other on accent. Celtic poetry is founded up- 
