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on the agreement of sounds, hence arise rhyme, alliteration, and concord 
not always depending on the coincidence of final words, but also on some 
radical vowel in corresponding words, and these not terminal alone, but 
recurring in several places throughout the verse, Numerous illustrations 
were given of the various kinds of correspondence and concord, examples 
being taken from Gaelic, Irish, Armorican and Welsh poems, both ancient 
and modern, among the modern being Evan MacColl. The hope is ex- 
pressed that some one with sufficient leisure will prepare a Celtic classical 
dictionary to do for Celtic scholars what Lempriere and Smith have done 
for Greek and Latin students, and that some Hermann or Bentley will 
soon appear with a full and lucid treatise on Celtic prosody, acting, until 
his task has been happily completed, on the advice of one of the acknow- 
ledged masters of Latin verse: “ Nocturna versate manu, versate diurna.” 
TWENTY-THIRD MEETING. 
Twenty-third meeting, 23rd April, 1892, the President in the chair. 
Donations and Exchanges since last meeting, 61. 
A. Gilchrist and T. A. Patrick, M.D., were elected members. 
A communication was read from the Royal Society of Turin, announc- 
ing the conditions of the Bressa Prize. 
The following resolution was passed, on motion by Mr, Bain, seconded 
by Mr. Hunter :— 
“The Canadian Institute is called upon to mourn the loss of one of its 
honorary members, the late Abbé Provancher, who during his lifetime 
was an ardent and zealous naturalist, working in the fields of Botany 
and Zoology. He furthered, by his indefatigable labors as editor of 
Le Naturaliste Canadien during twenty years, the expansion of these 
branches of science, and gave to the world the results of his diligent 
and thorough research. The Institute places on record its appreciation 
of his services to science, and joins with the rest of the Dominion in 
mourning for the loss the scientific world has suffered in his death.” 
Mr. L. J. Clark read a paper on “ Lake Currents.’ He explained the 
nature of the investigations carried on by the City Engineering Depart- 
ment last summer, for the purpose of ascertaining if sewage could be 
safely discharged into the lake, and, if so, the most favourable place. 
Operations were carried on from 35 to 40 days during the months of 
July, August, September, and October, under the supervision of Mr. C. 
Rust, Assistant Engineer. The Provincial Board of Health made an 
