PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE, 



SESSION 1886-'87. 



FIRST MEETING. 



First Meeting, Saturday, 6th November, 1886, the President 

 in the Chair. 



The following donations were announced to Nov. 6th, 1886 : 



1. Dominion Church of England Temperance Journal, Vol. I, Nos. 1-7. 



2. Report of the Second Hudson's Bay Expedition, Lieut. A. E.. Gordon, 



R.N., with Charts. 

 .S. Report on Canadian Archives for 1885, by Douglas Brymner, Archivist. 



4. Annual Report of the Superintendent, Toronto Water Works, for 1885. 



5. Report of the Entomologist, Canada, 1 885, James Fletcher, F. R. S, C . 



6. Phenomena of Suggestion in Hypnotic Sleep, &c., by Giuseppe Seppilli, 



ti'anslated by Dr. Workman. 



7. The Origin of Languages, by Horatio Hale. 



8. Algonkin Forest and Park, by A. Kirkwood, Esq. 



9. The Educational System of Ontario, 1886. 



10. Quaritch's Catalogues, Nos. 367, 3C8, 369. 



11. Edinburgh Astronomical Observations, Vol. XV., 1877-86, Star Catalogue. 



12. Bergens Museums Aarsberetning, for 1885. 



13. Ward's Natural Science Bulletin, May 1, 1886. 



14. Appleton's Literary Bulletin, Nos. 45, 46, 48. 



15. Report of Third International Geographical Congress, Venice, IS8I, from 



G. M. Wheeler, Capt. Engineers, U. S.. Army (2 copies). 



16. Bibliotheca Americana, for 1886, from R. Clarke & Co., Cincinnati. 



17. Powdered Anthracite and Gas Fuel, from the Lackawanna Institute. 



18. Indiana Historical Society, Pamphlet No. 2. 



The following summary of Exchanges since the last An- 

 nual Meeting, ist May, i886, was presented : — 



