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and gentlemen whose co-operation in the work of the Institute is 

 desirable, and to send to them a circular letter explaining its aims 

 and needs, following the same by personal application, paying for such 

 services in the premises according to such a scale as they may see fit, and 

 commissioning such persons as they may appoint to receive the fees and 

 such donations for specific purposes as may be given ; the work to be 

 continuously followed up, and reports of progress to be made as often as 

 possible. 



That the thanks of the Institute be given to Lt.-Col. F. C. Denison, 

 M. P., for the interest he has taken and the work he has achieved in 

 moving the government to take steps to protect and preserve the old 

 French stone magazine in Fort George, Niagara. 



Mr. Andrew Elvins read a paper on "The Satellites of Jupiter." 



Dr. A. M. Rosebrugh read a paper on " 1 he Child Problem." 



SEVENTEENTH MEETING. 



Seventeenth Meeting, nth March, 1893, the President in the chair. 

 Donations and Exchanges, 32. 



Hon. G. W. Ross was elected an honorary member. Dr. Eden Walker, 

 of New Westminster, B.C., a corresponding member for a period of three 

 years, and Mr. W. Spry, C.E., P.L.S., of Toronto, an associate member. 



The Secretary was instructed to send a congratulatory letter to the 

 Lundy's Lane Historical Society on the recovery of the parish records 

 of the parish of Welland from 1820 to 1835, and to ask for a short 

 description of their contents, and where and how the records were found. 



Mr. J. W. L. Forster read a paper on " Artists— their Educational 

 Privileges and Professional Rights." He directed attention to the good 

 fortune of the artisan and agriculturist, who each enjoyed technical and 

 scientific education, to the culture given the architect, engineer, solicitor, 

 and practitioner, and asked : — Shall the skilful and distinguished practice 

 of art forever limit itself to the studio and the field ? Shall it not allow 

 itself, shall it not prepare itself, to mingle and associate with scholarship 

 in a congenial and eminent fellowship? In close kinship to this question 

 was another : — Shall not art in its approved pursuit have an acknow- 

 ledged place amongst the learned and honourable professions ? These 

 questions formed the text, so to speak, of his paper. He pleaded in the 

 interest of the latter question reliable expert evidence in courts of law, 

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