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The President, the Rev. J. McCaul, LL.D., " On the determination of Ancient 



Roman dates." 

 J. Bovell, Esq., M.D., " On Growth and Repair." 



nth April, 1863. 

 Prof. E. J. Chapman, Ph.D., " On a Specimen of Carbonaceous matter from 



Lake Superior, with remarks on the Origin of the Petroleum, as applied 



more particularly to the Oil District of Western Canada, and some new 



views on the general formation of Coal." 



I8th April, 1863. 

 Eev. H. Scadding, D.D., " On Phonetic Anomalies observed in some modern 



forms of ancient proper names." 

 Eev. Prof. G. P. Young, M.A., "Formulae for the cosines and sines of multiple 



arcs." 

 W. Saunders, Esq., " On Canadian Arctiadse." 



25th April, 1863. 

 Sandford Fleming Esq., C.E , " Notes on projected Canadian Canals to connect 



the Upper Lakes with the St. Lawrence.'' 



The increase in the number of original papers and of contributors is a grati- 

 fying feature of the year. The number of our active members is still, however, 

 too limited, and further cooperation is earnestly invited. 



III. — Report of Editing Committee op the Journal. 



"Your Committee have little to report on this occasion, beyond stating the 

 fact of the completion of the Eighth Volume of the Journal, and expressing 

 the hope that its usefulness has not been deteriorated below its predecessors. 

 The general plan of the publication has in no respect been changed, although a 

 larger number than usual of original communications has this year entered into 

 it, and it is thus acquiring more and more the character which the Institute de- 

 signed it to bear, namely, a record of the proceedings of the Society. No lesB 

 than twenty-six such communications have been given, all of them bearing more 

 or less closely on scientific or literary progress in connection with the Province. 

 In addition to these, several translations of important articles from foreign 

 sources, not otherwise accessible to the English readers, have been furnished, as 

 well as Reviews on subjects of prominent interest, which may fairly claim for 

 the most part to be considered as essays on those subjects of independent value. 

 The Committee desire to express their obligations to Mrs. M. M. Kingsford and 

 S. Kingsford, Esq,, for valuable aid in this department. It was deemed ad- 

 visable to curtail the space allotted to miscellaneous intelligence, or extracts 

 from other journals, in order not to increase the cost of the Journal beyond its 

 usual limit. In view of the reduction of the Government Grant to the Insti- 

 tute, of the withdrawal of the order for the supply of copies of the Journal to 

 the Parliamentary Library Committee, and of the necessity that has otherwise 

 arisen for economy in the affairs of the Institute, it is proposed to reduce the 

 issue of the Journal to 500 copies, which will be sufficient for present need, and 



