242 TRANSACTIONS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. [VoL. IV 



TWENTIETH MEETING. 



Twentieth Meeting, ist April, 1893, the President in the chair. 



Donations and Exchanges, 71. 



Dr. Henry Hunt was elected a member. 



A paper by Rev. Dr. MacNish was read on " The present aspect of 

 the Ossianic Controversy." 



The following resolution was passed on motion of Mr. W. Hamilton 

 Merritt, seconded by Mr. T, R. Clougher : — 



" That one of the greatest benefits to commercial progress has been 

 attained by the advances made in the manufacture of steel, especially by 

 the Bessemer process, and that in Britain, the United States, and other 

 countries where smelting works are in operation, they have had direct 

 influence on the prosperity of the country ; Be it resolved, — that the 

 attention of the Provincial Government be directed to the advantages to 

 accrue to the province by the construction of smelting works for our iron 

 ores, and that a committee be appointed to wait upon the Government 

 and request it to consider such means as in their opinion will aid in 

 developing our iron deposits by the erection of smelting works." 



Prof. Coleman and Messrs. Merritt, Clougher and Bain were named a 

 committee in accordance with the resolution. 



TWENTY-FIRST MEETING. 



Twenty-first Meeting, 8th April, 1893, the President in the chair. 



Donations and Exchanges, 55. 



Messrs. Alldn Cassels, Thomas W. Gibson, H. Maughan, Robert Percy 

 Vincent, and A. L. Hoyles were elected members. 



Mr. D. W. Beadle, B.A., LL.B., read a paper entitled " Danger of 

 Introducing a very serious Pest destructive of our Peach Orchards." 



Mr. Andrew Elvins read a paper on the Satellites of Jupiter, supple- 

 mentary to one previously read on the same subject. He called attention 

 to the fact that the period of the revolution of each of the satellites was 

 double that of the next interior one, in accordance with Kepler's law. 

 Thus, the satellite farthest from the planet is about 352 hours, the 

 next nearer the planet is 176 hours, the next 88, and the next is 44, 

 while the newly-discovered satellite revolved in 1 1 hours, or one-fourth 

 that of the next exterior satellite. This discrepancy rendered it probable 



