ANNUAL MEETING. 191 



ANNUAL MEETING. 



The Thirty-Seventh Annual Meeting was held on Saturday, 

 i.st May, 1886, the President in the chair. 



The minutes of the last Annual Meeting were read and con- 

 firmed. 



The following list of Donations and Exchanges was read :— 



1. Le Naturaliste CaDadien, A\a-il, 1886. 



2. Report of the Minister of Education (Ontario) for the year 1885. 



3. Canadian Record of Science, Vol. II., No. 2. 



4. Historical Collections of the Essex Institute, Vol. XIII; No. 7, 8, 9, 1885. 



5. Bulletin No. 1 of the American Ornithologists' Union. 



6. Magazine of American History^ May, 1S8G. ^ 



7. The American Naturalist, May, 1386. 

 8.' Electrical Review, May, 1886. 



9. American Catholic Quarterly Review, No. 42, April, 1886. 



10. Science, Vol. VII., No. 169. 



U. Scliool of Mines Quarterly, Vol. VII., No. 3. 



12. Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Vol. XIX.., No. 4, October, 1885. 



13. Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, Vol. XIX., No. 76, 



14. Chemical News, April 16, 1886. 



15. Illustrated Journal of Patented Inventions, No. 63, April 16, 1886. 



16. Paper and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania for 1885. 



17. Bulletin de la Societe d'Anthropologie de J'aris, Tome Huitieme (III. 



Serie) 4'' Fascicule. 



18. Verhandlungen der'Gesellschaft fiir Erdkunde zu Berlin, Band XIII, No. 3'' 



19. Journal de la Societe Physico-chimique Russe, Tome XVII ^ 



20. Memoires et Compte Rendu des Travaux de la Societe des Ingenieurs 



Civils, 4« S6rie, IP Cahier, November, 1885. 



21. Journal des Societes Scientifique, 14 Avril, 1886. 



22. Compte Rendu de la SocitHe de Geographie de Paris, No. 8. 



Messrs. H.-B. Spotton, George S. Bean, B. A., Charles Hill 

 Tout and William H. Huston, M.A., were elected members. 



Dr. Daniel Wilson, read a paper on "Ancient Celtic Art," 

 which has since been published elsewhere. 



Mr. VanderSmissen, on behalf of the author, read the fol- 

 lowing paper : 



