

PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE, 



SESSION" 1888-89. 



SPECIAL MEETING. 

 A Special meeting was held on 22nd September, 1888, at 

 which Mr. George H. Dunham, of New York, exhibited Edison's 

 latest improved Phonograph, explained its construction, and 

 gave practical illustrations of its working. 



FIRST MEETING. 



The First Regular Meeting, 3rd November, 1888, the 

 President in the chair. 



^ Messrs. H. S. Rowland, Jr., and Arthur Cox, were named 

 p^ as representatives of the Institute on the Board of Directors 

 jjj of the Toronto Art School. 



32 Letters were read from Prof. Bryce, of Winnipeg, respecting 

 -^ the preservation of Old Fort Garry, and from " La Socidt^ de 

 -' Geographic," of Paris, respecting an International Geographical 

 Z Congress at Paris in 1889. 



■5 Donations since the Annual Meeting 51, including 17 

 volumes and pamphlets from Mr. Henry Rowsell and a col- 



