242 CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



Session— 1858-59. 



THIRD ORDINARY MEETING — Sth January ^ 1859; 



Hon. G. "W". Allan, President, in the Chair. 



I. The following Gentlemen were elected Members : 



Charles H, W. A'Court, Esq., London, England. 



Capt. John Ferris, Staff Officer of Pensioners, Toronto. 



John Kerr, Esq., Toronto. 



Professor G. Lawson, Kingston, C. W. 



S. S. Macdonald, Esq., Windsor, C. W. 



II. The following donations to the Library and Museum were announced, and the 



thanks of the Instittite voted to the donors : 



FOR THE MUSEUM. 



1. Major Lachlan, Cincinatti, Ohio. 



Collection of Silurian Fossils from Mount Auburn, Ohio Parcels 36 



2. Rev. V. Clementi, B.A., Peterborough. 



The Skull of a Beaver, {Castor Fiber.) !■ 



FOR LIBRARY, 

 1. Major Lachlan. 

 Christj^'s Letters on Geology. 



Second Preliminary report of the Nantahala and Tuckasege Land and Mine- 

 ral Company, 1858. 



2, Chicago Historical Society. 

 Charter Constitution and By-laws. 



3. Professor G. Lawson, Kingston, C. "W". 



Transactions of the Scottish Arboricultural Society. Vol. 1. Parts 1, 2, and 3. 



Remarks on Lopas Anatifera. Linn. 



On the occurrence of Conchonaeeous in Galeacea. 



On the structure of the Victoria Regia. 



Report on Musci and Desmidea, &a. 



Papers Read to the Botanical Society of Edinburgh. 



Bermuteungen. 



III. The following Papers were read: 



1. By the President, the Hon. G. W. Allan: 

 The Annual Address. 



2. By Dr. Harvey, of Hamilton : 



" On the increase and decline of Malarious diseases in the Valley of the Grand 

 River." 



IV. A discussion took place on the proposal to change the night of Meeting from ■. 

 Saturday to some other night. 



