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PEOCEEDIFGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUE. 



[1853. 



Mitchella Repens .. Partiiilgc Beny. 



Astii-( ? ) 



Solida!;-o( ? ) GolJeu Rod. 



Gnaphalium (?) Cudweed. 



Lobelia Syphilitica Gi-eat Lobelia. 



" Inflata Indian Tobacco. 



" Kalmii. 



Gaultheria Procumbens Winter Green May. 



Epigoja Repens Trailing Arbutus April. 



Pyrola Rotunditblia Round Leaved Pyrola.July. 



" Sccunda One Sided Pyrola July. 



Cbimapbila Umbellata Pi iuce's Pine June. 



Tricutidis Americana Startiower May. 



Lysimacbia Ciliata Loosestrife. 



Utrieularia Vulgaris Bladder Wort June. 



Verbascurn Tbapsus Mullen June. 



Miiiiulus Rinsjens Purple Monkey Flour. .August. 



Veronica Beccabunza June. 



" Peregriua April. 



Gerardia Guercifolia False Fox Glove August. 



Castilleja Coccinea Scarlet Painted Cup . _ May. 



Pediculaiis Canadensis Louse Wort May. 



Verbena Hastata Blue Vervain July. 



Mentha Canadensis Wild Mint July. 



Scolettaria Galericulata Skullcap Augaist. 



" Paroula Small do. ... May. 



Lithospermum Canesceus Hoar)^ Puccoon May. 



Datura Stramonium Thorn Apple July- 



Gentiana Ptbeumonanni Marsh Gentian August. 



Menyanthes Trifoliata Buckbean August. 



Asclepias Corauti Milkweed July. 



Phytolacca Decauda Pope Weed July. 



Shepherdia Canadensis Buckthorn May. 



Symplocarpus Fcetidus Skunk Cabbage April. 



Alisma Plantago , Water Plaintain July. 



Sagittaria Variabilis Arrow Head " 



Vallisneria Spiralis August. 



Cypropedium Spcctabile Lady's Shpper July- 



Smilaeina Bifoha Two-leaved Solomon's Seal . May. 



" Great Solomon's Seal. .May. 



Clintonia Borealis June. 



Noularia Perfoliata Bell Wort May. 



CORRESPOSiDENCE. 



Eeply of the Prmincial Sccrdary oh the part of His Excellency the Gover- 

 nor General to the 3Tcmorial of the Canadian In!,iitide,for the coriinuance 

 of the Marjndical Observatory at Toronto tender Provincial management : 



Secretary's Office, 

 QoEBEC, 23rd February, 1853. 

 Sir, — I am commanded by the Governor General to acknow- 

 ledge the receipt of the Memorial of certain of the members of 

 the Canadian Institute, praying that steps might be taken to 

 ensui-e the continuance by the Provincial authorities of the Ob- 

 servatory, heretofore conducted at the expense of the Imperial 

 Government, after the proposed withdi'awal from 'ioronto of the 

 Militaiy Detachment connected with that establishment. 



I am directed by His Excellency to acquaint you, and through 

 you the Canadian Institute, that the subject referred to in tlieir 

 Memoiial has for some time past engaged His Excellency's most 

 anxiou< cipusidrialiuii, and that Ilis Excellency has already taken 

 to prevent, if pcssiMe, the proposed dis- 



til 



maiilliiig of the Observatory by the Inipei 

 end of next month. 



authorities at the 



trusts, successful, it will then become necessary to consider upon 

 what basis, and for what objects, Ac, it is desirable to carry on 

 the Observatory as a Provincial establishment. 



The remarks upon these heads contained in the Memorial of 

 the Institute will not fail to receive the attention ihey deserve 

 when this branch of the question shall require to be considered. 



I ha\e the honour to be, Sir, 



Your obedient servant, 



A. N. MORIN, 



Secretary. 

 Captain Lefroj-, R.A., F.R.S, 



President of the Canadian Institute. 



Letteis Patent of Invention, 



Issued from the Bureau of Agriculture, vp to the 18ih of 

 Fehruary, 1853. 



George Stacy, of Montreal, for an " Impiroved Spike Machine." 

 (Dated, 20th January, 1853.) 



William AUchen, of the Village of Paris, for an " Improved 

 Scythe Holder." (Dated, 26th January, 1853.) 



George Ansley, of the Village of Vienna, for " The Centrifugal 

 and Centripetal Churn." (Dated, 8th Februaiy, 1853.) 



Ezekiel Burley, of tlie Township of Clarke, for an "Improve- 

 ment on the Wooden Plough." (Dated, 14th February, 1853.) 



INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER. 



Canadian Institute. 



Should the measures above indicated be, as His Excellency 



Tenth Ordinary Mcctinp, IQth February. 



The Council amiouncod the reception of a letter from the Se- 

 ci'ctary of the Court of Directors of the Hon. East India Com- 

 pany, informing the Institute that it having been repi'esented to 

 the Court by Capt. J. H. Lefroy, R. A., President of the Cana- 

 dian Institute, that the possession ot certain Meteorological and 

 Magnetieal Obser\ations made in India, would be of \alue in this 

 Colon_v, seven Aoiumes of Magnetieal and ^Meteorological Ob- 

 servations, taken :it Madras, Bomba}-, Singapore and Dodabetta, 

 have boon forwarded to the Institute. 



