4 8 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



Apr. lOtb, 1888, Mr. Wm. Phillips gave an address on "House 

 Drainage." 



The Officers for the ensuing year are : — Chairman, A. F. Wickson ; 

 Vice-Chairman, R. Dawson ; Treasurer, C D. Lennox ; Secretary, J. 

 F. Brown ; Committee of Management, Jolin Howard and G. F. W. 

 Price. 



Robert Dawson, 



Chairnimi. 



2. Biological Section. 



Toronto, 21st April, 1888. 



The Cov7icil of the Canadian Institute. 



The Biological Section of the Canadian Institute have held their 

 regular meetings on the 1st and 3rd Mondays in every month during 

 the past session. At each of these meetings one or more original 

 papers have been read on a variety of tojncs, as may be seen on refer- 

 ence to the })rogi-ammes issued. 



The " Microscope Fund " has througli the liberality of a few 

 members and their friends been sufficiently augmented to allow of the 

 purchase of a first-class instrument, now expected to arrive in a few 



days. 



Yours faithfully, 



W. E. Middleton. 



Schedule of Papers Read in Biological Section 1887-8. 



May 2, 1887, "The English Rabbit as an Agricul- 

 tural Pest," William Brodie. 



16, " "The Fresh Water Hydra," W. E. Middleton 



" The Coleoptera of the N. W. T," Wm. Brodie: 



June 20, " " The Acclimatization of the English 



Goldfinch Wm. Brodie 



Oct. 3, " " Canadian Ants," Wm. Brodie 



17, " " Canadian Gall lu^c^ls. Wm. Brodie 



Nov. 7, " " Foreign Ants,'' W. E. Middleton 



21, " " Hyphantria Cunea," Wm. Brodie 



Dec. 5 " "Tlie Brownian Movement. ' W. E. Middleton 



" Mind in Animals," Wm. Brodie 



" The Calamorpha Moth," Wm. Brodie 



