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CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



ANNCTAL REPORT OF THE COUNCIL FOR THE YEAR 1871-72. 



The Council of the Canadian Institute have the honor to present the following 

 Report of the proceedings of the Society for the past year, from 1st December 



1871, to the SOth November, 2872. 



MEMBERSHIP. 

 The present state of Membership : 



Members at commencement of Session, 1st December, 1871 S32 



Members elected during Session, 1871-72 12 



Deduct. 



Deaths during- the year 1872 4 



Withdrawn 6 



Total SOth November, 1872 .S34 



Composed of 



Honorary Members .5 



Life Members. . ' 20 



Corresponding- Members 5 



Ordinary Members 304 



Total 334 



COMMUNICATIONS. 



The following- valuable and instructive papers and communications were read 

 and received at the ordinary meetings held during- the Session : 



Ind December, 1871.— The President, "Short Sketch of the late Prof Hincks." 

 2nd December, 1871. — Dr. Wilson, " A Pre-Darwinian Type of the missing link 



between Man and the Anthropoids." 

 9iA December, 1871. — Dr. Canniff, "On the relation of Air germs to Suppuration." 

 9i/i December, 1871. — Dr. Nicholson, " Remarks on the action of Carbolic Acid 



in checking Suppiiration." 

 9<7i December, 1871. — Mr. Watson exhibited a portion of an Aerolite found in 

 Glengary in April last; and read a paper relating the circumstances of its 

 discovery, and embodying some information relative to the subject of 

 Meteoric Stones. 

 16^^ December, 1871 — The Annual Report. 

 16t/t December, 1871. — Dr. Nicholson, " Geological Continuity." 

 16^/i December, 1871. — The President laid on the table a two-franc piece, of the 

 Republique Francaise, 1870, and some other coins illustrative of the vicis- 

 situdes of French History, and read a brief paper on tlie collection. 

 \Zth Jayiuary, 1872. — The President's Annual Address, being a jjaper entitled 



" Toronto before the Conquest (17G0) and after." 

 2Qth Januiiry, 1872. — Mr. A. Elvins, "On the connection between Sun-spots 

 and the Rain-fall." 

 Zrd February, 1872. — Prof Kingston, " On the recent progress of Meteorological 

 research in Canada;" and the President read a communication from the 

 Rev. Mr. Dade, on " Lunar Influences." 

 lOth February, 1872 —The Rev. J. Campbell, M.A., "The Coptic Element in the 

 Indo-European Family of Languages." 



