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Editor— George Kennedy, M.A., LL.D. 

 Curator — David Boyle, Ph.B. 

 Secretary— Alan Macdougall, M. Inst. CE. 

 Librarian — A. F. Chamberlain, B.A. 



Members of Council— W. H. Ellis, M.A., M.B., Alex. Mar- 

 ling, LL.B., G. E. Shaw, B.A. 



The following papers were presented and taken as read : 

 " The Western D^nds," by Rev. A. G. Morrice, O.M. 



"The Indians of Canada," an introduction to the work of 

 the Sociological Committee, by T. B. Browning, M.A. 



It was resolved that the thanks of the Institute are due to 

 the newspapers of the city of Toronto, especially to the Mail 

 and Empire for the space which they have so freely given to 

 its proceedings, and for the extended notices of the meetings 

 ■which have so regularly appeared in their columns. 



SOCIOLOGICAL CIRCULAR. 



PART I. — SOCIOLOGY. 



Sir, — The Canadian Institute is desirous of collecting and incor- 

 porating in its TuocEEDiNGS reliable data respecting the political and 

 social institutions, the customs, ceremonies, beliefs, pursuits, modes of 

 living, habit, exchange, the devolution of projierty and office which 

 obtain among the Indian peoples of the Dominion, and of enlisting 

 your voluntary cooperation in the work. It feels that this depart- 

 ment of research has not been so fully cultivated in Canada as its 

 imjjortance demands, fears that the opportunity of gathering and 

 carefully testing the necessary facts may with the advancing tide of 

 Ein-opean civilization soon pass away, and is of opinion that much 

 light may be cast upon the genesis and growth of government as well 

 as upon legal, sociological and economic thought by an accurate study 

 of our Indian tribes in their existing conditions and organizations. 



