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The Institute will be hap})y to receive and give its best attention 

 to papers upon any and all the above, or such other subjects allitd to 

 them as may seem to you important. 



It would appear from reports published in the newspapers that in the 

 Province of Ontario, in the other Provinces and the Territories of the 

 Dominion, a considerable quantity of valuable information concerning 

 our Indian people is reduced to wi iting, but is not given to the world 

 because no proper channel has been established for its dissemination. 

 This Institute desires to draw these scattered rays to a focus for the 

 benefit of students at home and abroad : and believes that investiga- 

 tors will find in its Proceedings (now circulating among members in 

 Canada, 300, foreign societies and institutes, 400,) that avenue of 

 communication of which they have been so long in need. Proprietary 

 ri^;hts in the papers may be reserved. 



For some years the Institute has given special attention to collect- 

 ing and classifying specimens of natural hi.story, geology, and Indian 

 archaeology which, according to the custom of the Institute, are duly 

 inscribed with the names of the donors. Its museum includes many 

 veiy rare and valuable specimens which are open for inspection and 

 study every lawful day from 1 p.m. to 6 p m. It is the desire of the 

 Institute to increase its collection in all departments, enhance its 

 public usefulness and render it worthy of the Dominion as a national 

 institution. Through the libex-ality of the Canadian Pacific Railway 

 Company, the Institute is enabled to make announcement to donors and 

 intending donors that specimens for the museum will be carried over 

 the Company's line free of charge in packages suitaVjly packed for 

 fi eight. 



It is paiticvdarly requested that packages of specimeios for trans- 

 mission by rail, papers, abstracts, communications in or pertaining to 

 the matters of this circular be directed to 



The CJiairman of 



The Sociological Committee 

 Canadian Institute, 



58 Richmond Street East, 



Toronto, Ont. 

 On behalf of the Committee, 



T. B. Browning M.A. 



Chairman. 

 Toronto, August, 1889 



