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SESSION 1892-93. 



FIRST MEETING. 



First Meeting, 5th November, 1892, the President in the chair. 



Letters were read from the American Society of Civil Engineers and 

 from the United States Weather Bureau. 



Donations and Exchanges since last m.eeting, 1552. 



The following were elected members : — Miss Marcella Wilkes, 

 W. H. Marcon, Dr. Oronhyatekha, R. H. Bowes, W. Morrison. 



The following gentlemen were, on the recommendation of Council, 

 elected corresponding members for three years : — R. G. Haliburton, 

 Q.C., F.R.G.S., Dr. T. W. Beemer, Rev. A. G. Morice, O.M.I. 



The following motions were passed : — 



Moved by J. C. Hamilton, seconded by Prof Macallum : — 



"That this Institute recognizes with very sincere regret the great loss it 

 has sustained since its last session in the death of four of its honoured 

 members: — His Honour Sir Alexander Campbell, K.C M.G., Sir 

 Daniel Wilson, LL.D, D. A. O'Sullivan, LL.D., O.C, and Nelson G. 

 Bigelow, M.A., LL.D., Q.C., M.P.P., and that a minute of this resolution 

 be entered in the Transactions of the Institute." 



Moved by Dr. Kennedy, seconded by Alan Macdougall : — 



" We, the members of the Canadian Institute, ask to be permitted to 

 add our tribute of respectful regret and sorrow on the loss sustained ^Y^i?^ jn. ' 

 our province in the death of Sir Daniel Wilson. For over thirty-e^g'^KO^ -^ 



years a member of the Institute, he took a deep interest in its piw^^S^'"^ . ^ 

 enriching its Transactions by numerous contributions of his tale!*?Qi^peru<j ^ .^ 

 Elected President in 1859, he for many years afterwards re^aiiig3^a '"^«^,ii 

 constant and warm friend till in 1884, as a tribute to his interdict i"Tpttfi^.rfj?** 

 work and a respectful recognition of his labours in Literature, A rcha3^*fe^^***^ 

 and Ethnology, he was elected an honorary member, the highest dis- 

 tinction the Institute could confer upon him. The Institute at this its first 

 meeting after his death records its appreciation of the services rendered 

 by Sir Daniel Wilson, mourns for the loss it has sustained, and conveys 

 to his family its respectful expression of sympathy in their great and 

 deep affliction." 

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