CONTENTS. 



Paok 

 Officers, 1 892-93 iii 



Notes on the Western Denes r 



Rev. a. G. Morice, O.M.I. 



Transactions — Session 1892-93 223 



Forty-Fourth Annual Meeting 244 



Forty Fourth Annual Report 245 



Social Organization of the Blackfoot Indians 249 



Rev. John Maclean, M.A., Ph.D. 



A New Reading of the Buddhist Inscriptions of India (Plates I., 11., III., IV.). . 261 



Rev. John Campbell, LL. D. 



The Journal of Captain Walter Butler on a Voyage along the North Shore 



of Lake Ontario, from the 8th to the i6th of March, 1779 279 



Capt. Ernest Cruikshank. 



Memoir of Captain Walter Butler 284 



Capt. Ernest Cruikshank. 



Early Traders and Trade Routes, 1760-1782. (Second Paper) 299 



Capt. Ernest Cruikshank. 



Note on a Memorable Epoch in Canadian History 314 



Sandford Fleming, LL.D., C.M.G. 



The Present Aspect of the Ossianic Controversy 319 



Rev. Neil MacNish, B.D., LL.D. 



N iagara Library, 1 800- 1 820 336 



Janet Carnochan. 



Notes on the History of the Amalgamation Process 357 



Robert Dewar. 



[The Editor is requested to state that the specimen of Pinicola Etiudeator men- 

 tioned in Vol. I., page 41, No. 7, was captured by Mr. E. E. Thompson.] 



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