38 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 
scheme. If the idea should be favourably received details can be 
considered at leisure, and the plan modified as seems best. 
Briefly, then, I would suggest the establishment of say four sec- 
tions as follows :— 
A.—Mathematics, Physics and Mechanics. 
&.—Chemistry, Mineralogy and Geology. 
C.—Biology. 
£.—Ethnology, Philolery, History and Economy. 
Each of these sections should have its own chairman and secre- 
tary, who, with the officers of the Institute, might constitute the 
general council. 
Each section might meet once 4 month, and whenever there was a 
paper of sufficiently general interest to merit its being read before 
the whole body of members, a general meeting of the Institute 
might be held. 
I am fully aware that the division that I have suggested is far 
from a philosophical one, and I am in no way wedded to any of the 
details of the scheme. All I ask is that the members of the Institute 
will give the matter their consideration, and if it seems to them that 
the change will be likely to have the effect of arousing more interest 
in the meetings of the Canadian Institute and of furthering the 
objects that we all have at heart, then I shall be happy to adopt any 
modification that the Institute think best, and I will gladly co-operate 
in giving such a scheme a fair trial. 
FOURTH ORDINARY MEETING. 
The Fourth Ordinary Meeting of the Session 1884-85, was 
held on Saturday, November 22nd, the President in the 
Chair. 
The minutes of last meeting were read and confirmed. 
Donations and Exchanges received since last meeting : 
. The Canadian Entomologist, Vol. XVI., No. 8, August, 1884. 
. Monthly Weather Review, October, 1884. 
. Monthly Health Bulletin of Ontario, September, 1884. 
. Science, Vol. [V., No. 93, November 14th, 1884. 
t araeechone of the American Society of Civil Engineers for September, 
. Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History, Vol. III., No. 10 
May, 1584. 
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