124 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



TENTH MEETING. 



Tenth Meeting, 22nd January, 1887, the President in the 

 Chair. 



Exchanges since last meeting, 28. 



The following were elected members : — R. Dawson, Henry 

 Steele, John Horwood, C. D. Lennox, T. Simpson, B.A.,M.B. 



Dr. Daniel Wilson read a paper on " Some Stone Imple- 

 ments from Lake St. John, Que." 



After referring to the system of barter indicated by the 

 dispersion of the flint implements, he said that from the 

 Gulf of Mexico to the farthest north there was not the slightest 

 evidence of fire having been applied. At no period in the 

 history of this continent were there any indications of the 

 slightest knowledge of the metallurgic art. So that man has 

 not existed on this continent, except in a low state of savage 

 life. 



Prof Wright asked Mr. Macallum, who was present and 

 had just returned from Mexico, whether he met with any 

 stone implements in Mexico. 



Mr. Macallum had met with them in considerable abund-* 

 ance, such as stone axes, arrow heads. The colour was a 

 dark-brown, darker than that of those exhibited. 



Mr. A. B. Macallum, B.A., read a paper on "Theories of 

 Heredity." 



ELEVENTH MEETING. 



Eleventh Meeting, 29th January, 1887, the President in the 

 Chair. 



Exchanges since last meeting, 30. 



Messrs. James Bain, jun., and John Notman, were appointed 

 Representatives of the Institute on the Board of the Industrial 

 Exhibition Association for the present year. 



