CONTENTS. 



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Officers of the Canadian Institute, 1887-8 iii 



Presidents since 1849 iv 



List of Members 345 



List of Exchanges SoO 



Proceedings, Session 1887-8 1-61 



Sociological Circular 62 



PAPERS. 



I. — Snake Poisons. 



Dr. J. H. Garnier 2 



JI. — Old Shore Lines in the Ontario Basin. 



G. R. Gilbert 2 



III. — Experiments, IN Governing Canada. 



D. A. O'SuUivan, D.C.L 6, 254 



IV. — The Eskimo Race and Language. 



A. F. Chamberlain, B.A 8, 261 



fV. — PtECENT French Investigations in Hypnotism. 



Prof. R. Ramsay Wright 10 



VI. —Electro-Therapeutic Apparatus. 



Dr. A. M. Rosebrugh 14 



VII. — Maize and its Derivatives. 



C. Gordon Richardson 17 



VIII. — Teredo ^'AVALIS. 



J.F.Garden 17 



IX — The Influence of Tobacco and Alcohol on Vision. 



G. S. Ryerson, M.D., L.R.C.S., EcUn 18 



X. — Recen't Advances in Telegraphy and Telephony. 



Hugh Neilson 20 



XI. — The Mining Industries of Canada. 



W. H. Merritt, F.G.S 21 



Xfl. —Individualism from a Social and Historic Point o f View 



T. B. Browning, M.A 21 



XI ( i. — The Electro-Mercurial Amalgamation of the Precious 

 Metals from Argentiferous and Auriferous Ores. 



Charles M. Dobson, M.E 22 



XIV. — The Caves and Pot-holes at Rockwood, Ont. 



Prof. J. Hoyes Panton 24, 244 



