174 CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 
seems no reason to fear that this diminution arises from any loss of the public 
favour, or that it will not be made up by larger accessions in the future. The 
numbers of a Society which has passed its early period of rapid growth must be 
expected to be liable to some amount of fluctuation; and the real prosperity of 
the Institute depends not so much upon its numerical strength as upon the con- 
tinued interest taken by its members in its proceedings and publications. 
APPENDIX. 
DONATIONS OF BOOKS, MAPS, &c., SINCE LAST ANNUAL REPORT. 
Marked thus * not bound, or pamphlets. 
From tHe Hon. G. W. Attan, M.L.C. 
Gould's Trochilidee, » Parts 21) 22523) 24; and) 25.2 .\cie5 Verelain cre einiote sinus ee oe 
From tHE SEcrerary For Inpra. 
Magnetical and Meteorological Observations made at the Government Ob- 
servatory, Bombay, year 1859 .......00s+-eeee Shofelelelels/iolelelofetsteiekersrate 1 
From J. Dyxes CamMpBELt, Esq. 
The early Poems of Mr. Tennyson, privately printed. 1862 ............- eyed bs 
Doomsday Book, Cornwall. Photozincographed by Her Majesty’s command, 
at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, 1861.......... Beecnoo J 
From tHE SUPERINTENDENT oF Epucation, Lower Canapa, 
Journal de instruction Publique Cinquieme, Vol. 1861. Journal of 
Education, Lower Canada, for the year 1861, Both bound in one vol. 
OMBIO pooocccascs000000000 Joods oon DoH OOO SOUDANOON néso08 Soooo Lt 
From New York Srare Lisrary. 
Catalogue of the Library. 1861. General Library First Supplement. I. 
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General Index to the Documents relative to the Colonial History of the State 
of New York. Prepared by KH. B. O’Callaghan, M.D............40- Bo 1 
Per SmITHsoNIAN InstituTION, WASHINGTON. 
Verhandluroger des Zoologisch-botanishen Vereins in Wien, Band III. Jahr, 
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