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SEVENTEENTH ORDINARY MEETING. 26 
SEVENTEENTH ORDINARY MEETING. 
The Seventeenth Ordinary Meeting of the Session 1884-’85, 
was held on Saturday, March 7th, 1885, the President in the 
Chair. 
The minutes of last meeting were read and confirmed. 
The following list of donations and exchanges was read : 
1. Transactions of the Manitoba Historical and Scientitic Society, Nos. 12—18, 
Annual Report for 1884-5, 
2. Canadian Practitioner, Vol. X., No. 3, March, 1885. 
3. Science, Vol. V., No. 108, February 27, 1885. 
4. American Journal of Science, March, 1885. 
5. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. XLV., No. 3, 
January, 1885. 
6. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, Series II., Vol. V., Part 1, 
February, 1885. 
. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, 3e Série, Tome XIII., 1885, 
No. 1 
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Mr. T. H. Lennox was elected a member. 
Mr. Charles Levey read a paper on “Gold Mining on the 
Saskatchewan,” of which the following is an abstract : 
The gold fields referred to are at and near Edmonton, on the 
North Saskatchewan River, N. W. T., Canada. The deposit, through 
which the present river cuts, is said to extend some sixty miles east 
and west. The northern and southern limits are not known. The 
thickness of the deposit is partly seen by the height of the river 
banks which, at the point referred to, are at least two hundred feet 
high. At the highest points, on some of these banks, gold can be 
washed out, but the quantity per cubic yard of dirt increases as we 
near the present water level. On the gravel bars the yield by hand . 
working is about $1.60 per cubic yard. The gold is in the shape of 
very fine dust and minute nuggets. The largest of these nuggets is 
not larger than the smallest mustard seed. The hand-mode of separ- 
ating the gold from the dirt will be understood by reference to the 
sketches in which A is the Dump Box, B the Grisley, and C the 
Blanket Box. The Dump Box is filled with gravel, after which 
water is dashed upon it. by the aid of a long handled dipper. This 
