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associated with him in its foundation. After sketching the history of the 

 Institute since that time, he adds : — 



"I have touched on the place which the Canadian Institute has 

 attained among modern scientific societies. The Institute is quietly and 

 unobtrusively gaining for itself an honourable name. The work is 

 intimately associated with the life and progress of the Dominion, and as 

 the years come and go it will, I confidently believe, do its part in 

 promoting the purposes of science in inaugurating needed reforms, and 

 in advancing the best interests of society." 



SECOND MEETING. 



Second Meeting, I2th November, 1892, the Vice-President in the chair. 



Letters were read from the Prisoners' Aid Association, and the 

 Chicago Historical Society. 



Messrs. Arthur B. Willmott and Charles B. Miller were elected 

 members. 



Donations and Exchanges, 81. 



The following resolution was moved by Mr. G. Kennedy, LL.D., 

 seconded by Mr. G. G. Pursey, and unanimously adopted : — 



" In accepting from Mr. Forster his magnificent gift of a portrait of 

 our distinguished honorary member, Mr. Sandford Fleming, C.E., LL.D., 

 C.M.G., etc., the members of the Canadian Institute desire to express 

 their appreciation of the unselfish devotion to art and the interest in the 

 Institute which have prompted Mr. Forster to this generous act, and they 

 hereby tender to him their sincere gratitude for so fine a specimen of his 

 handiwork, which will, they trust, hand down to future generations the 

 counterfeit presentment of one who so deservedly holds a high place in 

 the respect not merely of the members of the Institute, but of the entire 

 Dominion of Canada." 



A. Hamilton, M.A., M.D., read a paper on the " Physiology of the 

 Lips in Speech," of which the following is a synopsis : — 



The functions, or physiology, of the lips in speech are chiefly (i) to 

 modify vowels by the shape assumed ; (2) form the consonants called 

 labial. The labial effect on vowels has been called " rounding." In 

 what this consists has not been stated anywhere definitely and lucidly. 

 To a less extent this is true of consonants. To give a lucid and true 

 statement of lip-function is the object of the paper. It simplifies matters 



