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places along our north shore still retain the name of Manaboyho or Naki- 

 bozhu, among these an island in Michipicotin Bay, which is his fabled 

 burial place. Mr. Longfellow lays the plot of his song on the south shore 

 of Lake Superior, but the Chippewas, Ottawas, and many other of the 

 nations named, and the customs and lore described, relate quite as much 

 to the Algonquins of our north shores. The paper concluded by giving 

 abstracts of a few interesting myths, or legends, related by young Assik- 

 inack when in Toronto, and which he had learned from his father and other 

 learned men of his nation on the Great Manitoulin Island, where the 

 brave old warrior and his talented son He now side by side in their last 

 resting place at VVikwemikong. 



TENTH MEETING. 



Tenth Meeting, 21 st January, 1893, the President in the chair. 



Donations and Exchanges, 93. 



A communication was read from the Royal Academy of Sciences ol 

 Turin respecting the ninth Hressa prize, to which, according to the 

 testator's will, scientific men and inventors of all nations will be admitted. 

 A prize will be given to the scientific author or inventor, whatever be his 

 nationality, who during the years 1891-94, "according to the judgment 

 of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Turin, shall have made the most 

 important and useful discovery, or published the most valuable work on 

 physical and experimental science, natural history, mathematics, chemis- 

 try, physiology, and pathology, as well as geology, history, geography, 

 and statistics." The sum fixed for the prize, deducting the income tax^ 

 will be 10,416 francs. 



Mr. Edward Meek read a paper entitled •' Lessons from the Times and 

 Teachings of Cicero." The lessons drawn from the times were "political" 

 — using the word in a general sense — teaching the causes which con- 

 tributed to produce the condition of the Roman Commonwealth as it 

 existed in the age of Cicero, its subsequent dissolution, the overthrow of 

 democratic government, and the establishment of imperial military rule. 

 As war was the chief business of the nation, the successful generals became 

 the greatest men — the popular idols. The people gradually turned their 

 attention, and transferred their allegiance from the Senate and magis- 

 trates, to the generals of the armies. The Senate, from the foregoing 

 and other causes, lost its control of the popular mind and over the 

 popular leaders. These leaders began to contend with each other for 



