68 CANADIAN INSTITUTE, 



Deduct. 



Deaths during the year, 1874-'75 2 



Withdrawn 4 



— 6 



Total, November 30th, 1875 842 



Composed of 



Honorary Members 5 



Life Members .... 18 



Corresponding Members 4 



Ordinary Members , , 315 



Total ........ , , .342 



COMMUNICATIONS. 

 The following valuable and instructive papers and commnnications were read 

 and received from time to time, at the ordinary meetings held during the session, 



December 5, 1874. — 'Rev. Dr. McCaul, LL.D., on "Ancient Persia and Parthia, 



illustrated by Numismatics." 

 December 12, 1874.— Communication from John Paterson, Esq., accompanied by 



a specimen of perforated stone found near Coboconk. 

 December 12, 1874.— Prof. H. A. Nicholson and Dr. W. H. Ellis, M.A,, on "A 



Remarkable Fragment of Fossil Wood from the Rocky Mountains." 

 December 19, 1874. — Annual Report of the Council of the Canadian Institute. 

 December 19, 1874.— Rev. Dr. Scadding esliibited several old Maps of North 



America, with remarks thereon. 

 January 16, 1875. — Prof Daniel Wilson, LL.D., on "A Summer Ramble among 



the Antiquities of Ohio, U. S." 

 January 23, 1875. — -Prof. H. H. Croft, D.C.L., on " Messrs. Gibson and Macoun's 



Report on the Botany of the eastern shore of Lake Huron." 

 January 30, 1875.— Rev. Dr. Scadding, on " A Review of Oxford and Cambridge 



Historical Autographs." 

 February &, 1875. — Dr. W. H.'Ellis, M.A., on " Nitro-Glycerine ; its properties 



and application." 

 February 13, 1875. — A. Elvins, Esq., on " Rainfall and Storm Cycles." 

 February 20, 1875. — M. Cummings, Esq., M. A., on " The Primitive History of the 



lonians," by the Rev. Prof. Campbell, Montreal. 

 February 27, 187'5. — Rev. Dr. Scadding, on "The early Gazetteer and Map 



Literature of Western Canada, with several old Gazetteers and Maps relat- 

 ing to the early history of Canada." 

 March 6, 1875.— J. M. Buehan, Esq., M.A., on " The Flora of Hamilton," 

 March 6, 1875.— H. B. Spotton, M.A., on " The Flora of Barrie." 

 March 13, 1875.— Prof J. Loudon, M.A., on "The Properties of Light." 

 March 20, 1875. — Mr. Elwin, on "A new theory of the Aurora Borealis, illus- 

 trated by Electrical Experiments." 

 March 27, 1875.— Prof E. J. Chapman, Ph.D., on "The Sub-division of the Pro- 



vince of Ontario, into several Geological areas." 

 April 3, 1875.— Prof. D. Wilson, LL.D., on "The Man of the Mammoth Period."' 

 April 3, 1875. — W. Oldright, M. A., M.D., on " Hints to dwellers in City Houses," 



