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The undoubted value of the earlier Reports of the Survey has long 

 been recognised, both at home and abroad, by all whose judgment 

 in matters of this kind, can have any claim to our acceptance. The 

 present Report, embracing, as it does, the results of all earlier explora- 

 tions, and comprising in itself so much that is new to science, cannot 

 fail to meet with equal recognition ; and to attract, still farther, the 

 attention of industrial art to the vast stores of mineral wealth that yet 

 remain unworked within the limits of the Province. 



CANADIAN INSTITUTE, 



Session— 1863-64. 



FiEST OEDiNAUY MEETING — 5th December, 1863. 

 Rev. H. Soadding, D.D., in the Chair. 



I. The following Gentlemen provisionally elected by the Council during the recess 

 were balloted for, and their election confirmed, — vis. : 

 John Gordon, Esq., Toronto. 

 M. McDermott, Esq., Chicago. 

 John Hall Esq., M.D., Toronto. 



II. The following Papers were read : 



1. By the Rev. Prof. W. Hincks, F.L.S.. Jce. : 

 " On Wehoitchia." 



2. By Prof. E. J. Chapman, Ph. D. : 



" On the detection of. ordinary metals, in mineral bodies, by the aid of the 

 common blowpipe and other cheap, portable and easily procurable apparatus, 

 ^th illustrative experiments." 



SECOND OKDINAKY MEETING. 



I2ih December, 1864. 

 Rev. J. McCaul, LL.D., President in the Chair. 

 I. The folloioing Gentlemen were elected Members : 

 Charles P. "Williams, Esq., Pliiladelphia,.U.S. 

 A. M. RosEBEUGH, Esq., M.D., Toronto. 

 Francis L. Cuecklet, Esq., Toronto. 



II. List of donations for the Library received during the recess was laid on the 



table,— See Annual Report. 



III. The nomination of office-bearers for the ensuing year took place. 



