176 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



EIGHTEENTH MEETING. 



Eighteenth Meeting, 3rd April, 1886, the President in the 

 Chair. 



The following list of donations and Exchanges was read : 



1. From W. A. Douglas, Esq., B.A: 



(1) Ontario Loan & Savings Companies. 



(2) Harmonies and Antagonisms in the Social Forces. 



(3) John and his Master. 



2. On the proposed change of time to a decimal system, by R. C. W. 



Goodridge. 



3. Canadian Practitioner, April, 1886. 



4. The Spectator, February 20th., 27th., and March 6th., 1886. 



5. Science, Vol. VII., No. 164. 



6. Magazine of American History, April, 1886. 



7. Transactions and proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineers, 



January, 1886. 



8. Journal of the New York Microscopical Society, Vohime I., No. 1, Jan- 



uary, 1886. 



9. American Journal of Science, April, 1886. 



10. Journal of the Franklin Institute, April, 1886. 



11. The Electrician and Electrical Engineer, April, 1886. 



12. The Electrical Review, April 3, 1886. 



13. Annual Reports of the Provost and Treasurer of the University of Penn- 



sylvania for the year ending Oct. 1, 1885. 



14. The Chemical News, March 17th., 1886. 



15. Illustrated Journal of Patented Inventions, No. 61, March 18th., 1886. 



16. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. XLVL, No. 4. 



17. Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, Nos. 253, 257. 



18. Transactions of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders of Scotland. 



29th Session, 1885-86. 



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



Vol. XVI., Part 2. 



20. Records of the Geological Survey of India, Vol. XIX., Part 1, 1886. 



21. Wochenschrift des osterreichischen Ingenieur und Architekten Vereines. 



Wien, Nos. 11, 12, Mars, 1886. 



22. Zeitschrift fiir Physiologische Chemie,X. Band, 3 Heft, Strassburg, 1886. 



23. Electricite, 13 and 20 Mars, 1886. 



24. Cosmos, 18 and 22 Mars, 1886. 



25. Archivio di Letteratura Biblica ed Orientale, Anno 8, No. 2, Febbraio, 



1886. 



26. Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft fiir Erdkunde zu Berlin, Band XIII. ,_ 



No. 2. 



27. Compte Rendu de la Societe de G^ographie, Paris, No. 6. 



