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I. THE >JATIVE TRIBES OF POLYNESIA. Paper refid before the Canadian Institute, 



March 12th, 1S70, by Richard Lee, F. A.S.L 443 



IL ON LATIN PRONUNCIATION. By James Loudon, M. A., Mathematical Tutor and 



Dean, University College, Toronto 460 



HI. ON THE CLIMATOLOGY OF STRATFORD, ONTARIO. By C. J. Maooregob, M.A. 



Head Master of the Grammar School 470 



IV. ON THE ANNUAL DISTRIBUTION OF TEMPERATURE AT TORONTO; IN THE 



Y'EAKS 1859-68. By G. T. Kingston, M.A., Director of the Magnetic Observatory 47-t 

 V. A TABLE, FOR CALCULATING THE WEIGHT AND YIELD, PER RUNNING 

 FATHOM, OF MINERAL VEINS. By E. J. Chapman, Ph.D., Professor of 

 Mineralogy and Geology in University College, Toronto; and Consulting Mining 

 Engineer '*'^ 



VI. BEVIEVTS : 



Alaska and its Resources. By V\ril!iam H. Dall, Director of the Scientific Corps of 



the late Western Union Telegraph Expedition. Boston : Lee & Shepard, 1870. 480 

 Tl'.e Prophecy of Merlin, and other Poems. By John Reade. Montreal : Dawson 



Brothers, 1870 4^0 



VII. CANADIAN INSTITUTE : 



Librarian's Report '*^* 



VIII. CANADIAN LOCAL HISTORY. By the Rev. Dr. Scadding 514 



METEOROLOGY : 



January Meteorological Table for Toronto : Ixxxiii 



Remarks on " " Ixxxiv 



February Meteorological Table for Toronto Ixxxv 



Remarks on " " Ixxxvi 



March Meteorological Table for Toronto Ixxxvii 



Remarks on " " Ixxxviii 



April Meteorological Table for Toronto Ixxxix 



Remarks on " " ^'^ 



TITLE ^ 



INDEX ^^' 



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