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meeting was very successful and well attended by members from the 

 United States and Canada. Five of the papers read were contributed by 

 Canadians, and among the officers elected for next year three were Cana- 

 dians, the President being Mr. Horatio Hale, of Clinton, Ont., justly 

 celebrated for his distinguished attainments in philology, anthropology, 

 folk-lore, and kindred subjects. The next meeting of the society will be 

 held in Montreal. 



An announcement was read from the Committee on Communica- 

 tions of the Anthropological Society of Washington, giving a statement 

 of the objects of that society and its programme for the current year. 



Mr, James Bain, Jr., then read on behalf of Captain Ernest Cruikshank, 

 of Fort Erie, a paper on " Captain Walter Butler and the journal of his 

 voyage along the north shore of Lake Ontario in 1779." 



The journal was accompanied by a memoir of Butler by Capt. Cruik- 

 shank, in which his military career was traced from the beginning of the 

 American revolution until his death in battle in the autumn of 1781. 



After the reading of Capt. Cruikshank's paper Mr. Bain read, by way 

 of appendix, some extracts from the journal of Major Robert Rogers 

 along the north shore of Lake Ontario in 1760. In the part of the 

 journal in which he relates his visit to Toronto, as the river and old 

 French fort were then called, Major Rogers makes the remark, " I think 

 Toronto a most convenient place for a factory, and that from thence we 

 may very easily settle the north side of Lake Erie." 



NLNTH MEETLNG. 



Ninth Meeting, 14th January, 1893, the President in the chair. 



Donations and Exchanges, 45. 



Mr. Emerson Coatsworth, Jr., M.P., was elected a member. 



Mr. J. C. Hamilton, LL.B., read a paper entitled, " The Algonquins of 

 the Georgian Bay; Assikinack, a Warrior of the Odahwas," of which the 

 following is a summary : — 



Mr. Hamilton showed from statistics furnished by the Indian Depart- 

 ment that the number of Indians of Ontario and Quebec was in 1891 

 about 26,600, and that they have increased by 25 per cent, in the preced- 

 ing 25 years. The aborigines of the Georgian Bay district are of Algon- 

 quin tribes, Ojibewas, Ottawas, Mississagas, and Pottawatamies. The 

 population of the Northern Ontario superintendency was in 1886, 3,343. 



