304 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 
11. Boletin de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias en Cérdoba (Republica 
Argentina), Tomo VIIIJ., Entrega la. 
12. Anales del Circulo Médico Argentino, Ano VIII., Marzo, 1885, Tomo 
VIII., Num. 3. 
13. Ymer Tidskrift utgifven af Svenska Sillskapet fiir Antropologie och 
Geografi, Haft 1884 (Fjere argangen), 5e, 6e, Je, och 8e, 1885 (Femte 
airgoangen), le, Haftet. 
14. Mémoires et Compte Rendu des Travaux de la Société des Ingénieurs 
Civils, Janvier, 1883 ; Juin et Juillet, 1884; Annuaire de 1885. 
15. Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft fiir Erdkunde zu Berlin, Band XIL., 
Noss ly 253. 
Mr. Joseph J. Woodhouse was elected a member. The 
Secretary read the Annual Report, as follows : 
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE, 
SESSION 1884-85. 
The Council of the Canadian Institute have the honour to lay 
before the members’their Thirty-Sixth Annual Report. 
During the past session twenty-four meetings have been held, at 
which thirty papers have been read. The character of the papers 
and the degree of interest shown in the meetings have been highly 
satisfactory. 5 
It is gratifying to observe that the membership continues to in- 
crease, forty new members having been added to the roll during the 
past ‘session. 
The interest taken by members in the Library and Reading Room 
also continues to grow, as shown by the fact that while last year 860 
books and periodicals were issued to members, the number this year 
was 1,533. 
Last year an effort was made to bind the transactions and periodi- 
cals, which have for some years been allowed to accumulate. The 
affort has been continued this year, during which 161 volumes have 
been bound and placed on the shelves. 
The number of transactions of learned societies received in ex- 
change for our Proceedings continues to increase, one hundred and 
sixty societies having this year sent copies of their publications. 
It is highly gratifying to the Council to call attention to the fact 
that at the International Conference held at Washington in October, 
1884, for the purpose of establishing a prime meridian, the proposals 
first made at a meeting of the Canadian Institute by Mr. Sandford 
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