48 TRANSACTIONS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. | Von. ITI. 
The invitation to hold a summer convention in the town of Penetan- 
guishene led to a very pleasant and interesting visit to soil rendered 
historical by the establishment there at a very early epoch of a fort tor 
the protection of the Jesuit Fathers and the French interests at large. 
The convention was held on the 25th and 26th September, the meetings 
were well attended, and the papers read by the resident historians were 
of much interest. An Excursion was made to Christian Island on the 
26th. A meeting was held in the Council chamber of the Indian village 
of St. Joseph, at which Chief Samuel Assance, Thomas Skye, a veteran 
of 97 years of age, and John Monague spoke. The latter, an old man of 
80, gave an interesting account of how he and others were taken to 
Toronto, in 1837, and sent to look out and intercept Mr. W. Lyon 
Mackenzie. He added naively that as he and his party did not know 
Mr. Mackenzie, they did not see how they could intercept him. Fort 
Ste. Marie was thoroughly explored. Another excursion was made 
to Fort Ste. Marie, on the River Wye, near the town of Midland, on 
the 28th ; the ruins examined, the site traced out, the water gate 
readily recognized and the channel of the canal, which had been used 
by the Jesuits for approaching the fort, identified. A proposal to 
secure this extremely interesting historical site for future preservation as 
a public memorial has received encouragement, and an advantageous 
offer for the purchase of the land on which the fort stands has been 
made to the Institute. 
The Council takes pleasure in again acknowledging the generosity of 
the Government in continuing the Archeological grant. 
The Archeological Report of the curator published in advance of this, 
again deals with a wide field of interest. In the chapter on craniometry, 
48 skulls are figured and described ; the Institute is indebted to Drs. S. 
K. Boyle and L. K. Meade for their kind labors in this matter. The* 
demand for this report has been so great that the edition is already 
exhausted. 
Additions by purchase and presentation have been made to the 
museum of specimens from all parts of the Dominion, the greater num- 
ber being naturally from friends in our own province. A full list of the 
names of donors to the museum is published in the report. 
An agreement was entered into with the Public Library Board for the 
transfer of the custody of our Archzological collection to that Board, to 
be placed in their proposed museum. The arrangement has un- 
fortunately been interfered with by adverse action of the City Council, 
but there is still a prospect of arrangements being arrived at which will 
carry out in part this plan, thereby relieving the overcrowding of the 
