94 PKOCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



A complete set of organ reed pipes would be a more typical metal 

 reed instrument than a harmonium, since it would contain the beat- 

 ing reed, which strikes the sides of the apertures, whereas the har- 

 monium contains the free reed which vibrates clear of the sides. 



The best proof that an aspirated consonant does not consist of h 

 prefixed to a plain one, is the fact that li may be actually uttered 

 directly before an aspirated consonant. Thus, to impose silence, we 

 may either exclaim gently sh ! or more vigorously Jish ! and in the 

 game of draughts, or checkers, we may blow upon a removed piece 

 with f! or with Itf ! our action, indeed, being called huffing. 



TENTH MEETING. 



The Tenth Meeting was held on 6th February, 1886, the 

 President in the chair. 



The following list of Donations and Exchanges was read : 



1. The Canadian Practitioner, February, 1886. 



2. J'he Canadian Entomologist, Dec, 1885. 



3. The Electrical Review, Jan. 30 and Feb. 6, '86. 



4. American Journal of Science, February, '86. 



5. Johns Hopkins University Circular, Jan. '86. 



6. Science, Vol. VII., No. 156. 



7. Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, Vol. IV., Part I., X.S. 



8. Mineral Resources of the United States, 1883-84. 



9. Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. V., No. 3, 



Dec. '85. 



10. Journal of the Franklin Institute, Feb. '86. 



11. Electrician and Electrical Engineer, Feb. '86. 



12. The American Catholic Quarterly Review, Jan. 'SG. 



13. Sandberg on Rail-Joints and Steel Rails. 



14. Proceedings of the Physical Society of London, Vol. VII., Part III., 



Jan. 1886. 



15. Transactions and Proceedings of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, 



Vol. XV., Part II. 



16. Palestine Exploration Fund — Quarterly Statement, Jan. '86. 



17. Illustrated Jourual of Patented Inventions, No. 57, Jan. 22, 1886. 



18. Triibner's American, European and Oriental Literary Record, Nos. 217, 



218. 



19. Imperial Federation, Vol. I., No. 1, Jan. 1, '86. 



