1802.93.] FORTY-FOURTH ANNUAL RKPORT. '-^4:5 



Professor Mavor was empowered to act as delegate from the Canadian 

 Institute to the next meeting of the British Association for the 

 Advancement of Science. 



The officers of the Institute for the ensuing year were elected as 

 follows : — President, Prof R. Ramsay Wright, M.A., B.Sc. ; First Vice- 

 President, Mr. J. C. Hamilton, LL.B. ; Second Vice-President, Mr. B. E. 

 Walker ; Secretary, Mr. Alan Macdougall, C.E. ; Treasurer, Mr. James 

 Bain, Jr. ; Librarian, Mr. D. R. Keys, M.A. ; Curator, Mr. David Boyle, 

 Ph.B. ; Editor, Mr. George Kennedy, M.A., LL.U. ; Members of Council- 

 Mr. J. Maughan, chairiDan of the Biological Section ; Prof. Coleman, 

 Ph.D., chairman of the Geological and Mining Section ; W. Canniff, 

 M.D , chairman of the Historical Section ; and Mr. O. A. Howland, Mr. 

 Arthur Harvey, Mr. Levi J. Clark. 



A vote of thanks was tendered to the retiring President, Mr. Arthur 

 Harvey, for his indefatigable labours in the service of the Institute dur- 

 ing his term of office ; also to the several officers for the faithful and 

 efficient discharge of their duties during the past year. It was then 

 resolved that the thanks of the Institute be tendered to the city press for 

 their excellent reports of the proceedings of the Institute and its sections, 

 and that a copy of this resolution be sent to each of the papers. 



FORTY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT. 



The Council of the Canadian Institute has the honour to lay before 

 its members its Forty-fourth Annual Report. 



The session which has closed compares favourably with past years in 

 the number of papers read, the attendance at the meetings and the 

 interest taken by members in the work of the Institute. 



Twenty-four ordinary meetings were held, at which thirty-four papers 

 were read. The work of the several sections was well maintained ; the 

 natural history or biological section, with its sub-sections, held twenty- 

 seven meetings ; the historical section six, and the geological and 

 mining, six meetings. 



The m.embership has increased by the election of twenty-five members, 

 sixteen associate members and three juniors. 



One honourary member and four corresponding members have been 

 elected, the periods of election of the latter ranging from three to five 

 years. 



