1891-92]. FORTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT. 45 
The election of officers and members of Council for the ensuing year 
resulted as follows :— 
President—Arthur Harvey, Esq. 
Vice-Prestdent—Prof. A. B. Macallum, Ph.D. 
Secretary—Alan Macdougall, M. Inst. C.E. 
Treasurer—James Bain, Jr., Esq. 
Librartan—D. R. Keys, M.A. 
Curator—David Boyle, Esq. 
Editor—George Kennedy, M.A., LL.D. 
Members of Council—O. A. Howland, Esq. 
L. J. Clark, Esq. 
AY Blue. Esq: 
James vit. Mearee, Esq. 
John Maughan, Ch. Biolog. Sec. 
J. B. Williams, Sec’y Biolog. Sec. 
JC) Hamiton, dL LB.) (Cho Mist Sect. 
B. E. Walker, Ch. Geol. and M. Sec. 
The 43rd Annual Report was read and adopted. 
The following resolutions were passed :-— 
That the thanks of the Institute be tendered to the Press for their 
courtesy in reporting so fully the meetings of the Institute. 
That the Council be requested to consider the propriety of apply- 
ing to the Dominion Government for a supplementary charter to add 
History, Literature and Art to the objects the Institute may study and 
promote, and to make clear the mode of election of the members of the 
Council. 
FORTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT. 
The Council of the Canadian Institute has the honor to lay before its 
members its Forty-third Annual Report. 
It is once more an agreeable task to record the progress of the Institute. 
The meetings have all been well attended. An ample supply of papers, 
with a range as wide and varied as in any previous session, has created 
much interest and elicited spirited discussions at the ordinary meetings. 
During the present session the regulations and by-laws have been 
remodelled and adopted at a special general meeting held for that pur- 
pose on the oth of April. Considerable changes have been made; two 
new classes of members have been introduced—corresponding members 
