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Tlie following gentlemen, having been duly proposed and Fourlecnth Ordinary Meeting, 19th March. 



ballotted for at the last meeting, were elected members of the The following gentlemen were proposed as members of the 



Institute : — Institute : — 



G. H. Sootheran Toronto. R. p. Lelande Toronto. 



Andrew Drummond " W. Kingston Fisher Artemesia. 



J. T.Brondgeest... " _ McMicken Toronto. 



James Wi-ight, Junior Member " ,j_ Mitchell " 



Hon.Peter McGill Montreal. ^„g.^,g Movrison ....'.... ...]'.V.'.['.V._V. " 



° ' '■^' A donation from Capt. Lefroy, R. A., was announced, consist- 



A paper on the " Valley of the Nottawasaga," was read by Mr. ing of — 



Fleming, G. E. Eight vokimes of Papers on subjects connected with the duties 



Eleventh Ordinary Meeting, fiGth February. of the Corps of Royal Engineei-s; 



The following gentlemen were duly elected members of the Brande's Manual of Chemistry, two volumes; 



Institute: Synopsis of the United States Exploring Expedition; 



C. E. Hancock — Toronto. The following gentlemen were duly elected members of the 



F. F. Carruthers " Institute: — 



Hemy Fowler " James Small, M. A. Toronto. 



William Pyper.. " E.A.Walker Barrie. 



Announcement was then made of the following donations to J- H. Esten, 1^ Junior Members Toronto 



the Institute: Hugh Torney, j 



The Tower Menagerie, with numerous wood cuts and iUustra- P''^^-^^^' Buckland read a Paper on Ornamental Planting, 



tions after Harvey. ■'■'' ^^'^ announced by the President that the Annual Con\er- 



sazione v.ould take place in the Hall of the Legislative Assembh-j 



The Sylvia Bntanmca; or Portraits of Forest Irees. o^i A-i^j-ij^OiiTirT, n^^i, 



•' on Saturday, April 2nd, instead oi Saturday, March 26th, as 



Map of the Hemispheres — Physical Map of France, Paris, and heretofore proposed. 



detached parts of France and Canada — By A. H. Armour. 



Two volumes of British Colonial Magnetical and Meteorological The Eaithquake Shock of 13th March, 1853. 



Observations. Vol. 1. — St. Helena. Vol. 2. — Van Dieman's -p xi i i i ui i i. i ■ tt n ^ 



Earthquake shocks, although not imkno'.vn m Upper Canada, 



y ap . . . 1 y, . . ^^.^ ^^ sufficiently rare occurence to show an unusual range, or an 



Mr. fr. W.Allan read a paper "On the Birds wintering in the unusual direction, in the movement of the earth's crust which 



neio'hbourhood of Toronto." occasionsthem, when they are perceived in this neighbourhood. 



Tu'dfth Ordinary Meeting, 5th March. The recollection is still preserved of a pretty strong shock that was 



A letter was read from F. Cumberland, Esq., accompanied by ^'^^ ^^ ^'^S^''' ''' ^^^^ °' ^8°^* ''"'<^ '' ]' ^^]' ^'.'^ =o»c!»sion of 



, ,. f ■ -u^ J I t T r T> ,. c r^ v Robert Mallet from his elaborate examination into the facts of 



a donation ot eight-and-twenty volumes ot Reports ot Commit- ^ • • , , 



i^ ii ti " i- r. 1 1 i.i i- ii n • Earthquake phenomena, (Reports British Assoc, 1850,) that 



tees of the House of Commons; also a letter from the Provin- ^ ^ > v i ' ^j 



. ,o > • 1 * ii Af • 1 i-ii n T T li i '■ Earthquakes occur over all parts of the earths suiface, both on 



cial Secretary, m reply to the Memonal of the Canad:an Institute, ^«- 'i i^ i . 



on the continuation under Provincial management of the Mag- l^"'^' ^'^^ "°'^^'' ^^^ ^^«*<^''5" ^^ '^^'^^ g°^' ^"'•*'^'' ""^ ^®™' 



netical Observatory at Toronto. ^^""^ there is,_ at present, no sufficient ground for asserting 



that one region of the globe is permanently subject to 

 The Rev. J. McCaul, LL. D., President of the University of ^^^^^ ^^^^^ tlj^n another. The great Lisbon Earthquake 

 Toronto, read a paper on "The Genuineness of some of the Class- ^^f November, lV55, furnishes however the only example 

 leal Authors. which we find in his list, of a shock reported from the lake dis- 

 Thi/tcenth Ordinary Meeting, 12th March. tricsof Canada. They are more common in Lower Canada. 

 The undermentioned gentlemen being candidates for admission Many of our readera will remember a shock which occasioned con- 

 as members, were ballotted for and duly elected : siderable alarm, and even some damage to buildings, at Nicolet, 

 The Hon. and Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Toronto. and on the shores of Lake St. Peter, on the 18th Januaiy, 1843, 



J. G.Hodgius Toronto. There was another at Montreal audits vic'nity in April, 1843. 



Henry O. H. George Whitchurch. Shocks were observed at Rochester, N. Y., September 1 9, and 



S.E. Campbell St. Hilaire. October 22, 1844. (R. R.) On November 2, 1850, a little be- 



O. Mowat Toronto. fore midnight, a shock, accompanied by a rumbling noise, was 



A. K. Boomer " perceived at Frederickton, N. B. These instances, which are 



Dr. Bovell delivered a discom^e on " The Forces which move «°t given as a complete list, shew that we are less removed from 



the Circulation," illustrated by microscopical exhibitions of the the region of this phenomenon than is commonly supposed b y 



circulation of the blood in the web of the frog's foot. » Auihoriiy— The Hon. Wm. Allan. 



