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urge upon the members the importance of their active co-operation, in order that 

 the weekly meetings may be a fair representation of the literary and scientific 

 activity of the Province. 



The following is the 



REPORT OF THE EDITING COMMITTEE. 



On the completion of the sixth annual volume of the New Series of the 

 Canadtan Jouknal, the Editing Committee have the honor to submit the annezed 

 Report to the Council of the Institute : — 



The Committee trust that the favorable character won, both in Canada and ia 

 foreign circles, by the Journal in former years, will continue to be maintained by 

 the volume now completed. In this volume, thirty original communications on 

 various branches of scientific inquiry, have been laid before the Institute and the 

 readers of the Journal. Nineteen of these communications, distributed about 

 equally through the six numbers of the volume, refer to purely Canadian subjects, 

 and thus serve to impart to the Journal a desirable character of nationality. In 

 proof of the value attached to these and to the other articles of this department* 

 it may be observed that several have been thought worthy of a place in European 

 Bcientific journals of long established reputation. 



The Reviews, in the present volume, are less numerous than usual ; amounting 

 to only six in number. Their place has been iu part supplied by the greater 

 length of the original communications, and partly by a series of translated and 

 selected articles. Amongst these, there will be found translations of several papers 

 of much importance, chiefly from the Oompte? Rendus of the French Academy of 

 Sciences ; and the selected articles, extracted from the Proceedings of the Royal 

 Society and other less accessible sources, will add, it is thought, to the interest 

 and value of the Journal. In making these extracts, care has been taken, as much 

 as possible, to select articles of a readable and generally interesting character. 

 Whilst the reviews, properly so-called, however, occupy but a small space, the 

 volume contains a considerable number of critical notices and analyses of various 

 publications, forwarded to the Journal by American and European writers. All 

 the new publications received in this manner have been thus acknowledged. 



The department of" Scientific and Literary Notes" continues to be kept up. In 

 the present volume it contains, together with numerous extracts, several pages of 

 original matter in the form of brief analytical notices of new announcements and 

 discoveries. A more active co-operation on the part of the members of the Insti- 

 tute generally, is much to be desired in this, as well as in the other departments of 

 the Journal. 



Dming the preceding year, in addition to the Societies and Libraries previously 

 in correspondence with the Institute, and enumerated in the last Report, the 

 following have been placed upon the exchange list : — The Literary and Philoso- 

 phical Societies of Liverpool and Manchester, and the Library of Trinity College* 

 Dublin. 



