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NOTE. 
ON THE EARLY DAYS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 
The writer of the first article in this volume was obliged to leave for 
England on public business without having so full an opportunity as 
was desirable to correct proofs and make emendations. He returned to 
Canada after the article passed through the press, and since his return 
he has found in an old trunk which had remained unopened over 
thirty years, a number of papers relating to the Canadian Institute in 
its early days. These records in no way conflict with the facts stated 
on pages I to 24 of this volume. They, however, furnish additional 
evidence of interest in support of the statements made. Among the 
papers found a few may be mentioned, viz: 
(1.) Original prospectus of the Canadian Institute, in the handwriting 
of the then secretary, Mr. J. Stoughton Dennis. This prospectus was 
circulated before September 22nd, 1849. It is referred to on page 3, 
par. 2, 
(2.) Pencil design for the seal of the Institute precisely as it appears 
on page 6. It was designed by the writer and engraved by Mr. John 
Allanson, an associate, who gave his services as engraver in lieu of a 
year’s subscription. 
(3.) Rough draft of the Royal Charter in the handwriting of the writer. 
This obviously is the original of the draft furnished privately to the 
Attorney-General through Mr. Thomas Ridout for the information and 
use of the former. It corresponds, as far as it goes, with the Charter 
granted by the Crown. (See page 8, par. I.) 
(4.) Draft letter to Captain Lefroy, seeking his co-operation in ad- 
vancing the Institute and asking permission to nominate him as first 
Vice-President. This document is in the handwriting of the late 
Colonel Fred. W. Cumberland, then an active promoter of the Society. 
The letter was written before May 27th, 1852, the date when Captain 
Lefroy joined the Institute and was elected Ist Vice-President. (See 
page 8.) In view of the high esteem in which he was held and his ser- 
vices to this Canadian Society in its early days, it is with a feeling of 
