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THIRTEENTH MEETING. 



Thirteenth Meeting, nth February, 1893, the President in the chair. 



The following Note on the life and works of M. I'Abbe Provancher, 

 by Julie Julien, was read : — Mr. I'Abbe Leon Provancher was born in 

 Becancourt, near Three Rivers, on the loth of March, 1820. He was 

 ordained priest at Quebec on the 12th of September, 1844. Since 1862 

 he has devoted all his time to the study of natural history. He began 

 then the publication of the " Naturaliste Canadien." His principal works 

 are: " Traite elementaire de Botanique, " illustrated, 1858; "Flore du 

 Canada," 1862 ; Le " Verger," " Potager," et le " Parterre," 1874; Faune 

 Entomologique du Canada, Les Coleoptaires, 1877, avec s-upplements, 

 Ortopteres, Neuropteres, Hymenopteres, 1883; Additions aux Hymenop- 

 teres, 1889; Les Hemipteres, 1S89. He also published accounts of his 

 travels: " De Quebec a Jerusalem," 1884; " Une Excursion aux pays 

 Tropicaux," " Abr^ge de I'Histoire du Canada," 1884; " Les MoUusques 

 de la Province de Quebec," " Les Univalves." He began writing a study 

 on the " Culture of Ornamental Plants," but unfortunately could not 

 terminate his work before his death, that occurred on the 23rd March, 

 1892, deeply regretted by his sorrowful relatives and by all the lovers of 

 natural history. 



Professor Coleman read a paper on " New Trails in the Rockies 

 from the Saskatchewan to the Arthabasca." 



Dr. Sandford Fleming read a paper on '* The Abolition of the Astro- 

 nomical Day," also a paper on " A Memorable Epoch in Canadian 

 History," also a paper on " Canadian Historical Pictures." 



The following resolutions were passed : — 



That the Canadian Institute heartily welcomes and accepts the 

 proffered aid of the Astronomical and Physical Society of Toronto in 

 its work of Time Reform, and requests the Council of the Institute to 

 appoint a committee of three to co-operate with a similar committee of 

 the Astronomical and Physical Society in bringing about the assimila- 

 tion of astronomical and civil time. The Canadian Institute suggests 

 that the two committees act as a joint committee with equal voting 

 power, and further, that Sandford Fleming, Esq., C.M.G., LL.D., etc., who 

 is a member of both societies, be chairman of the joint committee, with 

 power to decide any difference of opinion which may arise. 



That Dr. Fleming's paper on Canadian Historical Pictures be referred 

 to a committee consisting of Messrs. Howland, Forster, Sherwood, Tully 

 and Hamilton, to consider and report to the Council at its next meeting 



