122 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 
committee to consider the advisability of dividing the Insti- 
tute into sections, in accordance with the suggestions con- 
tained in the President’s Inaugural Address, and to report 
upon a scheme for that purpose if advisable: the President, 
the Secretary, Mr. Boyle, Mr. Geo. E. Shaw, Mr. J. M. Buchan, 
Mr. Alan Macdougall, Prof. Loudon, Mr. Murray, and the 
mover and seconder.” 
The following list of donations and exchanges was read: 
1. The Canadian Entomologist, XVII., Nos. 1 and 2, January and ee 
1885. 
2. Science, Vol. V., No. 107, February 20th, 1885. 
3. Journal of the New York Microscopical Society, Vol. I., No. 2, February, 
1885 
4. Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 
XIV., No. 3, February, 1885. 
5. Boletin de la Academia de Ciencias in Cordoba (Republica Argentina), 
Tomo VII., Entrega la, 2a. 
6. Annaes da Escola de Minas de Ouro Preto, No. 3., Rio de Janeiro, 1884. 
. Mémoires et Compte Rendu des Travaux de la Société des Ingénieurs 
Civils, 4e Sérié, 36e Annéc, 12e Cahiér, December, 1883, 4e Sérié, 37e 
Aunée 8e, et 9¢ Cahiér, Aofit et Septembre, 1884. 
8. Les Annales des Mines :— 
Séptieme Série, Mémoires, Tome XVI., 6e Livraison de 1879, Tomes 
XVII., XVIII., XIX., XX.,-1880, 1881. Huitiéme Série, Mémoires, 
Tomes I., II., III, 1V., V., Livraison lve 2e, 3¢, Tome VI., Livraison 
4e, 5e, 1882, 1883, 1884. Lois Décrets, Arréts, 1880, 1881, 1882, 
1883. 7e Série, Tomes IX., X. 8e Série, Tomes I., II. 
9. Proceedings of the Conference relating to a Prime Meridian, from the 
Dominion Government. 
I 
Mr. John Phillips read a paper on “ The Centrifugal Forces 
ot the Planets.” 
The object of the paper was to establish the proposition that the 
moon was projected vertically from the earth at an initial velocity 
of about seven miles a second, the earth and moon having originally 
formed a single mass. Mr. Phillips showed the process by which he 
determined the velocity with which a heavy body falling from a 
state of rest towards the earth from the distance of the moon would 
strike the earth’s surface, this being also the initial velocity with 
which a body would have to be projected in order to ascend to that 
distance. Having exhibited the formule and substituted for the 
general terms the particular quantities as determined by observation, 
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