50 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 
SEVENTH ORDINARY MEETING. 
The Seventh Ordinary Meeting of 1883-84 was held on 
Saturday, December 15th, the President in the chair. 
The minutes of last meeting were read and confirmed. 
The following gentlemen were admitted members : 
Mr. R. W. Phipps, Mr. William Leslie Beale, Mr. Arthur J. Graham, 
John J. Cassidy, M. D. 
List of donations and exchanges received since last 
meeting :— 
1. Journal of the Franklin Institute for October, 1883. 
2. Tillaeg til Aarboger for Norske. 
Oldkyndighed og Historiae, AGTEREE, 1879. 
mC 1880. 
Kjobenhavn, 1880-81. 
4, Mémoires de la Société des ‘Ame ea du Nord, Nouvelle Série, 1881. 
5. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, Vol. 
11, Nos. 3 and 4. 
6. Science, Vol. 2, No. 44, December 7th, 1883. 
7. Appleton’s Literary Bulletin, December, 1883. 
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. Transactions of the Manitoba Historical and Scientific Society, Nos. 5 and 6. 
2 s Nos. 1 and 2, 1883-4. 
. Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Peres Nos. 1 to 8, January to 
September, 1883. 
10. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bezel, Vol. 52, Part 2, No. 1, 1883. 
11. Scientific Proceedings of the Ohio Mechanics’ Institute, Vol. 2, No. 3, 
September, 1883. 
12. Waifs in Verse, by G. W. Wicksteed, Q. C., Law Clerk House of Com- 
mons of Canada, presented by the author. 
13. Transactions of the Manchester Geological Society, Vol 17, Part 10, 
Sessions 1883-84. 
Mr. T. B. Browning, M. A., then read a paper entitled, 
“England’s Oldest Colony.” 
Mr. Browning opened his paper by commenting upon the indiffer- 
ence with which the Provinces of British North America treat each 
other, and proceeded to discuss the rights which the French have in 
that part of Newfoundland called the French Shore under the treaties 
of Utrecht, Paris, and subsequent arrangements. He also alluded 
to the Banks fishery, and stated that the French employ about 700 
ships in this and the shore fishery, about 28,000 seamen, and make 
