20: TRANSACTIONS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. [VoL. VI.- 
The Vice-President thanked Dr. McCaul, on behalf of the Institute, 
for his address, and referring to the excellencies of the addresses 
delivered that evening, said, “Is there a man in this room, or in Canada, 
who will now say that this country is not ripe for such an Institution ?” 
and he was happy to announce that the contrary was further proven by 
the fact that upwards of thirty gentlemen, among whom were the most. 
distinguished of their visitors, had placed their names on the lists for. 
ballot of admission. 
The Hon. Robert Baldwin then rose and said that he would have ad- 
dressed the meeting earlier in the evening, but that the Vice-President 
had announced that some distinguished scientific gentlemen were expected 
to speak on the occasion, and lest it should be imagined that he had 
been included in that category, he had postponed his remarks until the 
close of their proceedings. He alluded to the flattering manner in which 
his name had been mentioned by Dr. Melville, and said that he had done 
nothing more than his duty as regarded the obtaining of the Charter for 
the Institute ; but he dd feel warm sympathy for its objects. He was a 
lover of science, although he could have no pretensions to be a scientific 
man; and perhaps in this respect he was like a lover of another kind, 
who was not famed for very precise appreciation of the merits of the 
object of his love, but like that other kind of lover, although blind in his 
attachment, he was not the less sincere. As an earnest of it he would 
have inscribed his name earlier as a candidate for membership, but had 
he done so he would have been deprived of the pleasure of returning 
thanks on behalf of the visitors for the honour of being invited to this 
very interesting meeting—and that he might not again appear here in 
the capacity of a stranger he begged that his name might at once be 
inscribed on the list of proposed members.—Great applause. 
On the Saturday following the conversazione of April 3rd, 1852, the 
Institute met as usual, when a long list of candidates for membership 
was announced. The weekly meetings were continued until May 8th, 
when Mr. A. Brunel and Professors Cherriman and Croft, having been 
previously nominated, were duly added to the Council. At the same 
meeting the prospectus of The Canadian Journal was formally approved, 
and authority given to arrange for its publication in connection with 
the Institute under the control of the Council. 
The fourth Session commenced under favorable auspices. The first 
weekly meeting was held on December 4th, 1852, in Old Government 
Flouse. On that occasion sixty new members were proposed. The annual 
general meeting was held the following week, when the officers and 
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