PKOCEEDINGS 



THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE, 



SESSION 1885-'86. 



FIRST MEETING. 



The First Meeting of the Session i885-'86, being an open 

 meeting and Conversazione, was held on Saturday, 21st No- 

 vember, 1885, the President in the Chair. 



The President dehvered an address, in which he announced 

 the union of The Natural History Society with the Canadian 

 Institute. He was followed by Mr. Brodie, President of The 

 Natural History Society. 



Mr. David Boyle read the following paper, entitled 



THE ARCH^OLOGICAL OUTLOOK. 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : 



I take it that the purpose of the Council in asking me to write 

 this paper was rather that I should lay before you what the Institute 

 has done and proposes to do by way of recording archseological data 

 and forming a collection illustrative thereof, than to attempt anything 

 like a disquisition on the subject in its widest sense. 



Still, it may be well to understand clearly just where we stand at 

 the outset, and perhaps I can scarcely do better than tell you wha 

 in my opinion, the study of archaeology is 7iot. 



It is not merely the collecting of arrow-points, tomahawks, pipe- 

 heads and pottexy, at so much or at nothing apiece from farmers and 

 other persons. It is not even the actual digging up of such objects 

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