930 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 
7. Appleton’s Literary Bulletin, No. 4, April, 1884. 
8. California State Mining Bureau : Third Annual Report of the State Mineral- 
ogist, for the year ending June Ist, 1883, 
9. (a) Bulletin of the Essex Institute, Vol. 14, January to December, 1882, 
Nos. 1—12, 
(b) Pocket Guide to Salem, Mass., 1883. 
(c) Plummer Hall : Its Libraries, its Collections, its Historical Associations. 
(d) The North Shore, Massachusetts Bay, 6th Ed., 1883. 
10. Anales del Museo Nacional de México, Tomo III., Entrega 5a. 
11 (a) Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool dur- 
ing the 59th Session, 1869-70, No. 24. 
(b) Proceedings of the same Society during the 62nd Session, 1872-73, No. 
7 
12(a) Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, Vol. 11, parts 1 
and 2; Vol. 13, part 3. 
(b) Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, Vol. 1, 1843-1865, 
16 Nos. complete ; Vol. 2, 1866 to 1876, parts 1—17, complete; Vol. 
4, part 6, for 1883. 
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schaft, ‘‘ Isis,” in Dresden, 1883, Juli bis December. 
14, L’Académie Royale de Copenhague, Bulletin pour 1883, No. 2, (Mars— 
Mai.) 
15. (a) Annuaire de L’Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres, et des Beaux 
Arts de Belgique, for 1881, 1882 and 1883 ; 47th to 49th year, Bruxelles, 
(3 Vols.) : 
(b) Bulletin de L’Académie Royale de Belgique, 49me Année, 2me Série 1880, 
Tome 1 ; 50™e Année, 3”e Série, 1881, Tome 1, 2; 5lme Année, 3me 
Série, 1882, Tome 3m, et 4ine ; 52me Année, 3me Série, 1883, Tome 5me, 
(6 Vols.) 
Dr. E. A. Meredith then read a paper entitled :— 
“COMPULSORY EDUCATION IN CRIME.” 
The reader of the paper contended that so far as regards the sup- 
pression of vice and crime, our Common or County jails were little 
better than the abominable dens which Howard visited and de- 
nounced more than a century ago. Philanthropists, social reformers 
and Prison Congresses had worked earnestly during the last thirty or 
forty years, and their labours had in other departments produced 
good results. In institutions for saving children, such as Homes, 
Refuges and Industrial Schools, extraordinary progress had been made 
and in convict prisons for adults an extraordinary revolution had 
been carried out with equal success, especially in those conducted 
under the so-called ‘ Crofter” or “Irish” system. The Common 
Jails alone lagged behind the age, and the reason probably is that they 
were the only institutions managed by municipal bodies, the others 
