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THE CANADIAN 



A REPERTORY OF 

 AND A RECORD OF THE 



PEOCEEDII&S OE THE CANADIAI INSTITUTE. 



TORONTO, UPPER CANADA, MARCH, 1853. 



CONTENTS: 



On the Land Birds wintering in the neighbourhood of 

 Toronto— by G. W.^AlIan, Esq... 169 



Directions for Collecting, Preserving, and Transporting 

 Specimens cf Natural History 172 



On the Pi-ovineial Currency — ^by J. R. Cherriman, M.A., 

 .F.C.P.S 177 



The Hoi-se and its Rider — by J. Bailey Turner, Esq 180 



Observations on the Leafing and Flowering of Plants 182 



Correspondence, — 



Reply of the Provincial Secretary to the Memorial of the 



Canadian Institute • 184 



Letters Patent of Livention, February, 1853 184 



Transactions of the Canadian Institute 184 



The E arthqualce Shock of March 13,1853 185 



Reviews, — 



Ship Canal from Albany to New Baltimore 



Ontario, Simeoe and Lake Huron Railroad 



Seventh Report of the Board of Works (of Toronto,) 

 for 1853 



Scientific Intelligence, — 



An Entomological C iiriosity 



On the causes which render Bread Stale 



Tellurium 



Remedy for the Stings of Bees 



Patent Gunprimers _ 



Meteorological Tables, ^— 



Montreal, February ._ . 



Toronto, February 



Observations on the Magnetic ForM 



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