CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



ANNUAL REPORT OP THE COUNCIL FOR THE YEAR 1868-69. 



The Council of the Canadian Institute have the honour to present the 

 following Report of the proceedings of the Society for the past year, from 

 the 1st December, 1868, to 30th November, 1869. 



MEMBERSHIP. 



The present state of membership is as follows : — 



Members at commencement of Session, 1st December, 1868. . 354 



" Elected during Session 1868-'69 12 



" " provisipnally by Council 7 



Total 373 



Deduct 



Deaths 9 



Withdrawn 9 



Left the Province 1 



— ■ 19 



Total, 30th November, 1869 354 



Composed of 



Honorary members 4 



Life members 28 



Corresponding members 5 



Ordinary members 317 



Total 354 



COMMUNICATIONS. 



The following list of papers, read at the ordinary meetings held during 

 the Session, will be found to contain many valuable communications : — 

 ^tn December, 1868.— Professor D. Wilson, LL.D., "On the Petrarchan 



Stanza, in relation to successive eras of English Literature." 

 l^th Decemler, 1868. — Dr. Agnew, "Roundabout Paper." 

 l^th December, 1868. — The Annual Report was read and adopted. 

 8^^ January, 1869.— Dr. E. M. Hodder, "On some Sphygmographic 



Tracings, and their relations to diseases of Heart and Large Vessels." 

 16^^ January, 1869.— Rev. Prof. W. Hincks, F.L.S., President, read his 



Inaugural Address. 

 22n^ January, 1869. — Dr. J. Bbvell, "Illustrative of the Growth of 



TissuG " 



^^ih January, 1869.— Dr. C. B. Hall (for Dr. Scadding), "Collections and 

 Recollections in regard to York, Upper Canada." 



^th February, 1869. — The Medical Section adjourned in consequence of 

 the Death of Dr. M. O'Dea. 



l^tTh February, 1869.— Dr. Scadding continued his " Collections and Recol- 

 lections in regard to York, Upper Canada." 



