60 TRANSACTIONS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. [ VoL. III. 
details of the modes of licence, examination and practice in the early 
days of this province. 
Dec. 17th, 1891.—Mr. D. Boyle presented a paper on “ The Discovery 
of the Great Falls of Labrador.” This was opportune, as the newspapers 
of New York were claiming for a Bowdoin College expedition, the 
discovery of these falls, and the right of naming them. The discovery 
was made in 1839, by the late John McLean of the Hudson’s Bay Com- 
pany’s service. The paper was recommended for publication in the 
“Transactions” and the Section is pleased to see it has been published in 
the number just issued. A very interesting paper was read at the same 
meeting by Mr. J. G. Ridout, “Gibraltar, with Illustrations.” At this 
meeting, too, a resolution was passed and forwarded to the Council to 
call attention to the importance, as formerly urged by the Institute, of 
setting apart several townships on the head waters of some of our 
northern rivers as a national park. The Section is pleased to note that 
a Royal Commission has been appointed by the Lieut.-Governor in 
Council to fully consider this subject, for, in addition to its value to 
natural history, forestry, pisciculture and the preservation of many 
animals and birds from possible extinction, the establishment of natural 
parks will conduce to the fostering of a patriotic spirit and be a means 
of increasing interest in Canada abroad. 
Feb. 21st, 1892.—At this largely attended meeting Mr. Arthur Harvey 
read a treatise on “ The Labarum of Constantine the Great, and the new- 
views thereon of Mr. Christopher Samarsidis, Gymnasiarch (Principal of 
the Collegiate Institute), of Adrianople, Turkey.” Mr. Samarsidis had 
traced in the arcs and crosses of a parhelion, as in a monogram, the very 
letters of the celebrated TOYL2 N/KA, and the emblems XP. The 
paper dealt with this subject and was illustrated by diagrams of parhelia 
(frequent in Canada) and other atmospheric phenomena which may have 
had some connection with the vision of Constantine. The feeling for- 
merly, and even yet, excited by such displays was alluded to, with quota- 
tions, also the circumstances which led to the decay and fall of Poly- 
theism, and the adoption of Christianity as the religion of the Roman 
Empire. One of the objects of the paper was to show “ how rapidly a 
ripple on the shores of the blue A“gean now reaches our Canadian lakes.” 
March 24th, 1892.—A paper by Mr. Jas. Bain, Jr., on “ The Rebellion 
of 1837-8, as seen by an English officer,’ gave an account by Lieut. 
Hutton, 34th Regt., of his travels with the troops and the part they took 
in repelling the American sympathisers of that day. The action at 
Sandwich in which Col. Prince commanded the Canadian militia was 
described in apparently impartial terms. The paper elicited a warm 
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