230 CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



TENTH ORDINARY MEETING — Ist March, 1862, 



The First Vice-President, the Rev. Prof. G. C. Irving, M.A., ia the Chair. 

 I. The following donation to the Library was announced, and the thanks of the 

 Institute voted to the donor, J. D. Campbell, Esq. : 

 " Doomsday Book ; or, The Great Survey of England of William the Con- 

 queror, relating to Cornwall. Pac-simile photo-zincographed by Her Majesty's 

 command, at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton. Col. Sir Heury James, 

 R.B., P.R.S., &c., director. 1861." 



II. The followidg Papers were read : 



1, By the Rev. Prof. Hatch, B.A. : 



" A Sketch of the Pre-Socratic Philosophers." 



2. By James Bovell, Esq., M.D. : 



" Some recent Theories of Cell development, with Microscopical Illustrations.'' 



eleventh ordinary meeting — 8^^ March, 1862. 



Hon. J. H. Haqarty, President, in the Chair. 



I. The following Papers were read: 



1, By the Rev. G. P. Young, M.A. : 



" Remarks on an argument of Dr. Whewell, against the claims of the Par- 

 menides to be considered a genuine Dialogue of Plato." 



2. By Prof. Wilson, LL.D. : 



" On the aim of Shakespeare, in his Historical Dramas, as illustrated in his 

 King John." 



TWELFTH ordinary MEETING — I5th March, 1862. 



In the absence of the President and Vice-Presidents, Prof. Wilson, LL.D., was 



called to the chair. 



I. The following Paper was read : 



By Prof. Croft, D.O.L. : 



" On the supposed existence of Benzole in Canadian Petroleum." 

 Prof. Chapman made a communication relative to the occurrence of the Phe- 

 nomenon of Mock Suns, as observed by Mr. Clifford Thompson, P.L.S., near the 

 mouth of the Muskoka River, in November last. 



THIRTEENTH ORDINARY MEETING — 22nd March, 1862. 



In the absence of the President and Vice-Presidents, Prof. Wilson, LL.D,, was 



called to the chair. 



I. The following gentleman was elected a member: 



F. B. Dixon, Esq., Toronto. 



II. The following donation for the Library was announced, and the thanks of the 



Institute voted to the donors, the Royal Society of Edinburgh : 



" Proceedings of Session 1860-61." 



" Transactions of do." Vol. xxii. Part 3. 



