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Ten sheets (all published) of a very valuable Ethnological Map of Finmark 

 have been transmitted by the Smithsonian Institution. A Chart of Lake On- 

 tario has been presented by Mr. Chewett Mr Bohn has sent — through Messrg, 

 Rollo and Adam — the three latest additions to his interesting series of Libraries. 

 A copy of the Statutes of Canada for 1863, has been received from the Record 

 OflBce, Quebec. — These works, amounting in all to a little over one hundred and 

 fifty, constitute the donations of the year. 



The additions to the Library by purchase during th« same period have been 

 comparatively few. In view of the proposed commencement of a building by 

 the Institute, economy in this, as in every other direction, seemed desirable. 

 The volumes purchased amount to only eighteen. These include four volumea 

 in continuation of series in course of publication, viz., three volumes of Bacon's 

 Works, the third volume of Carlyle's Life of Frederick II., the third volume of 

 Smiles' Lives of the Engineers, and the second volume of May's Constitutional 

 History of England. 



Detailed lists of all books, pamphlets, and maps received, are appended below. 



About seventy volumes belonging to the Library are out on loan ; many of 

 them since 1861 ; some ten of them since 1858. Members when applied to by 

 circular on the subject of these loans, do not in every instance respond. 1% 

 seems desirable that there should be a return of all borrowed books at least 

 once a year. 



In regard to ordering books, it is important that in every instance the title of 

 the work should be entered first in the order-book of the Institute : there is 

 otherwise a danger of duplicates arriving to the address of the Institute. It ia 

 also important that every volume should be entered in the Librarian's Catalogue 

 before passing into the hands of members. 



The present Library is becoming somewhat over-crowded ; but some space 

 has been gained by placing two rows on one shelf, where the size of the volumes 

 admitted of that arrangement. 



H. SCADDING, 



Toronto, Dec. 5th, 1863. Librarian Canadian Institute. 



VII — Report op Building Committee. 



In the spring of the year, the Society purchased an eligible lot of land as a 

 site for a building, in which the business of the Institute might be satisfactorily 

 conducted, and designs were submitted and approved. The following report 

 •tates the causes which prevented the Building Committee from carrying out 

 the intention of the Society. The plans, which have been adopted, provide 

 ample and convenient accommodation, and the Council trust that the funds of the 

 Institute may soon be sufficient to warrant the commencement either of the 

 projected building or of one on a smaller scale. 



" The Building Committee report that the tenders which they received for the 

 building, bo far exceed the expectation of the Council and the means at the dis- 



