SIXTEENTH MEETING. 



SIXTEENTH MEETING. 



Sixteenth Meeting, 2nd March, 1889, Vice-President Brown- 

 ing in the chair. 



Exchanges since last meeting, 38. 



Mr. E. G. Hanning, C.E., P.L.S., was elected a member. 



The following resolution reported from the Geological and 

 Mining Section, was adopted and a copy was ordered to be 

 forwarded to the Ontario Government : 



In view of the great variety and undoubted vahie of the minei'al 

 resources of Ontario, and the necessity to the capitalist, scientist and 

 prospector of having a typical collection of minerals to refer to in the 

 capital of this province, it is highly desirable that the Government of 

 Ontario make arrangements as soon as possible for a mineral museum 

 at the new Parliament Buildings, or elsewhere, in Toronto, and in the 

 meantime that temporary arrangements be made for a mineral mu- 

 seum at some suitable place in the city. 



The following resolution was also passed : 



That the members of the Canadian Institute desire to record their 

 sense of the loss they have sustained in the death of George Paxton 

 Young, M.A., LL.D., Professor of Metaphysics and Ethics in Uni- 

 versity College, Toronto, one of the most distinguished life-members 

 of the Institute, whose high character as a man, attainments as a 

 scholar, and success as an educationalist, will cause his name to be 

 long held in grateful remembrance liy all who had the pleasure of his 

 acquaintance. His numerous papers in Mathematics and Philosophy, 

 read V)efore the Institute, are among the most valuable contributions, 

 to its " Proceedings ; " and we hereby desire to tender our respectful 

 sympathy to his relatives and friends in their great affliction. 



That a copy of the above resolution be .sent to the nearest relative 

 ot Professor Young. 



Mr. Alexander D. Black read a paper on " The Genesis of 

 the Heaven and the Earth." 



