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HI. On the nomination severally, of the President and the Members, Messrs Spreull 

 and Cockbarn were appointed Auditors. 



IV. The following Papers were read: 



1. By J. F. Smith, Jr., Esq. 



" Notes on some of the more Characteristic Fossils of the Hudson River Group 

 of Western Canada." 



2. By Professor D. Wilson, LL.D. 



•* JS'otes on the Development of new Varieties among the Intrusive|Population& 

 of America." 



SIXTEETH ORDINARY MEETING — SESSION 1868-59. 



9<A April, 1859. 



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



I. The following donations for Library and Museum were announced and the thanks 



of the Institute voted to the donors: 



FOR LIBRARY. 



1. From Smithonian Institution. 

 Smithonian Contributions to Knowledge. Vol. X. 



2. From T. D. Harrington, Esq. 

 Teneriffe, by Professor C. Piazi Smith. 



FOR MUSEUM. 



1. From T. D. Harrington, Esq. 



A Collection of specimens of Mineralogy and Indian Pottery ; one ancient Greek 



Coin found on the Eastern Coast of Sicily. 



II. The following Report from the Council, prepared by the Committee to whom 

 had been referred a proposed change of Name of the Institute, was read, and the 

 President announced that the question would stand over for discussion till the 

 general Meeting to be held on Saturday next : 



REPORT. 

 " To the Council of the Canadian Institute. 



" Your Committee having had under consideratioii the reference to them relative 

 to the injuries already resulting, or likely to result to the Canadian Institute from 

 its correspondence in name to the Mechanics' Institutes, ' The Institut Canadien,' 

 and other bodies of a purely local nature, or formed for purposes altogether dif- 

 ferent from those aimed at by this Society, beg to report that : owing to the 

 peculiar circumstances in which the Canadian Institue originated, the special 

 objects most prominently set forth in its Charter of Incorporation pertain to the 

 profession of the Land Surveyor, Civil Engineer, and Architect, although the 

 Institute has long since abandoned this exclusively professional character, and 

 become a strictly scientific society. 



" Your Committee would therefore recommend that application be made for 

 a New Charter, with extended privileges ; and whereas the present charter was 

 granted by His Excellency the Earl of Elgin, Governor General of the Province, 

 Your Committee suggest that application be made for a Royal Charter, under Her 

 Majesty's own hand andseal ; and that in consideration of this, and to prevent any 

 future confusion with other Canadian Institutions, Local or Provincial, the Institute 



