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ford Fleming, read before the Canadian Institute March 2nd, 

 1 86 1, it was remarked that Mr. Gilbert appeared to have over- 

 looked a communication made to the Institute two weeks later 

 by Professor Chapman on " The Ancient Extension of the 

 Lake Area of Western Canada." 



Referring to the allusion to Mr. G. J. Hinde's paper, in 

 which he speaks of " well-defined terraces between Toronto 

 and Lake Simcoe," Mr. Ives wished to point out that that 

 author onl}' intended to state what Lyell was " attracted to 

 Toronto to examine," whilst later on he says : " these terraces 

 are said to exist," etc., and in the same paragraph, " from an 

 imperfect examination, however, it appears to me," etc. 



Mr. Ives stated that he had gone over the ground as far as 

 Lansing without being able to recognize any other beach than 

 that recognized by the author, and by Mr. Sandford Fleming, 

 with the exception of a slight rise following roughly the line 

 of College and Carlton streets, corresponding to the first ter- 

 race of Sir Charles Lyell, " situate one mile north of the lake 

 shore," which, however, he thought hardly entitled to be called 

 a terrace. 



Mr. Boyle thought that Mr. Ives was mistaken in supposing 

 that Mr. Hinde had not gone over the ground himself He 

 believed that' Professor Chapman's explanations had been 

 made not so much with the view of exploring the terraces as 

 of ascertaining the marine moUusca. 



Note. — Subsequently to the reading of the paper, through the kindness of 

 Mr. Alan Macdougall, Mr. Ives was permitted to inspect iu the otfice of the 

 City Engineer, certain plans and sections recently compiled with reference to 

 the water supply for Toronto, and he wishes to state that he regards those sec- 

 tions as strongly confirmatory of the conclusions of Roy, based probably upon 

 a similar series of measurements, as Lyell .states that the levels had been "accur- 

 ately ascertained by Mr. Roy when employed professionally in making measure- 

 ments for sevcal projected canals and railroads." 



THIRD MEETING. 



Third Meeting, 19th November, 1887, the President in the 

 chair. 



