THE CANADIAN JOURNAL, 



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A REPERTORY OF 



IND1I8TI1I, geiiiei, ilD in 



AND A RECORD OF THE 



PROCEEDIIGS OF THE CAIADIAl IISTITUTE. 



TOaONIO, UPPER CANADA, NOVEMBER, 1852. 



CONTENTS: 



Editorial 73 ! Editorial Notices 



The Treasures of our Forests 73; Ee\'iews,- 



Woods of North America 74 



Remarks on Thermometric Kegister, by Capt. J. H. Lefroy, 

 R. A.,F.R. S 75 



Gas Patents, by Henry Croft, D. C. L., Professor of Che- 

 mistry in the University of Toronto 77 



Hints to the beginner in Water Colours 79 



Plants and Botanists 79 



Twenty-Second Meeting of the British Association — Extracts 



from the President's Address 81 



Vortex Water Wheel, with plates 86 



Sleighs and the Sleighing Season, with plates 87 



Cultivation of Flax 88 



Scobie's Canadian Almanac for 1853 



Reports by Juries; Exhibition of the Works of Industry of 



all Nations, 1851 



Report of the Commissioners of Public Works for 1851. . 



Improved Railroad ; Notice of 



Monthly Meteorological Register, for October 



Scientific Intelligence, — 



New Species of Orang ^ 



Human Foot-prints in Solid Limestone . 



Extracts from the Proceedings of the British Association at 

 Belfast, 1852 j __ 



The Planet of August 22nd, 1852. _ 



Miscellaneous 



PUBLISHED BY HUGH SCOBIE, TORONTO, 



FOR THE 



COUNCIL OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



All Communications to be addressed to the Editor of the Canadian Journal, Toronto. Remittances to be sent to the 



Treasurer of the Canadian Institute. 



