18 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 
SECOND ORDINARY MEETING. 
The Second Ordinary Meeting of the Session 1884-’85, was 
held on Saturday, November 8th, the President, Prof. W. H. 
Ellis, in the Chair. 
The minutes of last meeting were read and confirmed. 
The following gentlemen were elected members of the 
Institute :-— 
T. J. Mulvey, B.A., T. A. Haultain, B.A., H. R. Wood, B.A., J. H. Bowes, 
B.A., Charles Whetham, B.A., J. C. Smoke, M.A., Geo. G. S. Lindsey, B.A., 
F. C. Mensinga, Esq., W. Dale, M.A., W. A. Frost, B.A., Geo. Inglis, B.A., 
John Nairn, Esq., J. D. Barnett, Esq., D. H. Talbot, Esq., Prof. T. Nelson 
Dale, Rev. George Burnfield, M.A. 
The following list of donations and exchanges received 
since last meeting was read : 
The Canadian Practitioner for November, 1884. 
. Science, Vol. IV., No. 91, October 31st, 1884. 
. Science Record, Vol. II., No. 12, October 15th, 1884. 
. Journal of the Franklin Institute for November, 1884. 
. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society, Vols. VII. and VIIL., 
Lent and Easter Terms, 1854. 
6. Bulletin de la Société d’ Anthropologie de Paris, Tome Septieme (IIe Serie) 
3e Fascicule, Mai a Juillet, 1854. 
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Prof. T. Nelson Dale then read the following paper :— 
ON METAMORPHISM IN THE RHODE ISLAND COAL 
BASIN. 
Sir Charles Lyell, in a paper read before the Geological Society of 
London in 1844, called the attention of British Geologists to the 
occurrence near Worcester, in Massachusetts, of a bed of Plumbago 
and Anthracite, which he was inclined to believe belonged to the 
Carboniferous Formation.*. The Geological Survey of Rhode Island 
by Dr. Jackson, published in 1840, that of Massachusetts by Presi- 
dent Edward Hitchcock in 1841, a short paper by the same on the 
Rhode Island coal field in 1853, as well as two papers by his son, 
* Ch. Lyell, On the probable age and origin of a bed of Plumbago and Anthracite occurring in 
Mica-schist near Worcester, Mass.—Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, 
Vol. I., 1845. See also on the Worcester beds the following paper, which has appeared siuce 
mine was read. Joseph H. Perry, Note on a Fossil Cval Plant found at the Graphite deposit 
in Mica-schist, at Worcester, Mass. —American Journal of Science, Vol. XXIX., p. 157, Feb., 
1885, 
