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some plan whereby the proposals mentioned in the paper may be 

 accomplished. That it be an instruction to the Committee on Canadian 

 Historical Pictures to consider the best manner of raising means to 

 obtain a historical painting to commemorate the arrival of Sir Alexander 

 MacKenzie on the Pacific Coast on July 22nd, 1793, after his memorable 

 discoveries and the completion of the first transcontinental journey by 

 any civilized man, and it be suggested to the committee that artists should 

 be invited to submit proposals to the Institute on the 22nd July next. 



FOURTEENTH MEETING. 



Fourteenth Meeting, i8th P>bruary, 1893, the President in the chair. 



An interim report from the Committee on Historical Pictures was 

 read. 



Donations and Exchanges, 56. 



G. M. M. Martin was elected a member. 



Mr. L. J. Clark read a paper on " The Breaking of the Conduit," illus- 

 trated by drawings on the blackboard. 



FIFTEENTH MEETING. 



Fifteenth Meeting, 25th February, 1893, the President in the chair. 



Donations and Exchanges, yj. 



T. Mower Martin, R.C.A., was elected a member. 



A paper by Capt. Ernest Cruikshank was read on " Traders and 

 Trade Routes in Canada, 1760- 1800" (second paper). 



SIXTEENTH MEETING. 



Sixteenth Meeting, 4th March, 1893, the President in the chair. 



Donations and Exchanges, 70. 



E. Herbert Adams, M.D., was elected a member. , 



The following resolutions were passed : — 



That clause 2 of the first section of the by-laws be hereby suspended, 

 -and that the Council be requested forthwith to make a selection of ladies 



