THE ARCH^OLOGICAL OUTLOOK. 7 



To conclude, ladies and gentlemen, let me repeat that the work to 

 be done is of such magnitude that without a considerable expenditiire 

 of time and money it will be quite out of the question to perform it 

 in anytlnng like a thorough or satisfactory manner. It should be 

 either aided or wholly executed by the Dominion or Provincial 

 Government. There can be no doubt that under the auspices of 

 the former there would be immense and peculiarly advantageous 

 opportunities, but in that case the collection formed would centre 

 at Ottawa, which can scarcely be pi'onounced the educational or 

 literary capital of the Dominion. 



We shall hail with delight any efforts made towards the prosecu- 

 tion of arch geological research, from a really national standpoint, but 

 when we regard our own Province (and so regard it we must) as 

 the most important of these colonies, and when we recognize the even 

 more apparent fact that Toronto is the principal litei-ary and scien- 

 tific city in the Province, if not in the whole confederation, we 

 naturally and quite unselfishly desire to see the outcome of public 

 effort placed where it will do the most good. 



But quite independent of any Dominion scheme that may or 

 may not be consummated, Ontai-io owes it to herself as the richest, 

 most populous, and most advanced Province, to work her own 

 territory to the best advantage in this respect, and to form an 

 ai'chajological museum in the City of Toronto — the Queen City — the 

 City of Schools — that will not only redound to our credit as an 

 intelligent people, but that will attract students from distant lands, 

 and enable the scientific investigator of the future to thank heaven 

 for the somewhat tardy foresight that has provided for him, (figura- 

 tively speaking) a feast of fat things. 



SECOND MEETING. 



The Second Meeting was held on Saturday, 28th November, 

 1885, the President in the Chair. 



It v/as moved by Dr. E. A. Meredith, seconded by Dr. 

 George Kennedy, 



" That the members of the Canadian Institute cannot allow this, 

 their first meeting since the death of John Milne Buchan, M.A., to 



