100 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 
I have thus only just faintly outlined, as it were, some of the 
“ornithological characteristics” of a part of the year. The details, 
if properly filled in, would occupy far too much of your time on the 
present occasion, even if I confined myself to the birds arriving in 
the spring and early summer. I must, therefore, defer any further 
notices of our “migrants” to another opportunity. 
The paper was illustrated by specimens. 
Remarks on some of the birds referred to were made by 
Messrs. Murray, Vandersmissen, Keys, Squier, McKenzie, 
Livingstone, Bain, Brodie, and Dr. Scadding. 
ELEVENTH ORDINARY MEETING. 
The Eleventh Ordinary Meeting of the Session 1884-'85, 
was held on Saturday, January, 24th, 1885, the President in 
the Chair. 
The minutes of last meeting were read and confirmed. 
The Hon. G. W. Ross, Minister of Education, and David 
B. Dick, Esq., Architect, were elected members of the 
Institute. 
Tbe following list of donations and exchanges was read : 
. Monthly Weather Review, Dominion of Canada, for December, 1884. 
. Science, Vol V., No. 102, January 16th, 1885. 
The American Journal of Science, for 1884, Vols. XX VII. and XXVIII. 
. Report of the Observatory of Yale College for 1883-’84. 
. Transactions of the Manchester Geological Society, Vol. XVIII., Part III., 
Session 1884-85. 
6. Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, N.S., Vol. VII., No. 1, 
for January, 1885. 
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7. Quaritch’s Catalogue of Spanish Literature, No. 361. 
8. Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, Nos, 195 to 230, forming 
Vol. XIV. and part of XV. 
List of Members of the London Mathematical Society, November 13th, 
1884, 
9. Mémoires et Compte Rendu des Travaux de la Société des Ingénieurs 
Civils, 4 e Série, 37 e Aunée, 10 e Cahiér, October, 1884, 
