20< POISONOUS PLANTS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF TORONTO. [1853 



(From the Globe.) parture, our best wisBes for your happiness and welfiu-e go with 



" The Canadian Institute gave their annual Conversation'', nt you. Sin-ned on behalf of the Institute, 



the close of the season, on Saturday eveniniv last. Tlu JLl<•o•i^l;^- ., „ ri\:ft?-r,-nTKT \-kt 



»• I 1 1 oi 1 I 1 I 1 1 " xi J- B- CHERRIMAN, 



ti\e Assembly Chamber was very liaudsoiuely decorated on tlic ■p-RTrn nTTATRT?T?T A>jr» 



occasion. The walls were hung with paintings and engrai-ings ; iRE^D. CUMBERLAND, 



stands covered with tiowers ■ from the conservatories of Mr. Vice-Presidenfs. 



Fleming, occupied conspicuous places, and Ions; tables were used „ "i Zr~^ ^ 



for the display of models of machinerv, books of fine plates, Sixteenth Ord.nar^eeting, April 9th. 



pieces of statuary, and other objects of interest The paintings ^he following gentlemen were didy elected member, cf the 



ot V enetian scenes, said to be by Caualetti, and possessing most , . 



of the excellencies of that master, excited the meet attention, -^"^"'^ute : 



'I'hey are the property, we understand, of Kenneth Cameron, T, D. Harris, Toronto. 



Esquire. Conspicuous, beside the platform, on an ease), stood John Worthington, " 



the portrait of Captain Lefroy, the President of the Institute, E. C. Campbell Niagara. 



painted by Mr. Berthon, and intended (o be hung in their place of C. S. Gzowski, Toronto. 



meeting. Tea and cotfee were served in the main hall of the J.G.Joseph, « 



building. About half-past eight, the gentlemen assembled were D. K. Fcehan, " 



called to order by the Chainnan, Captain Lefroy, who wvlconied C^- W. Strathy, « 



them in the name of the Society," E. F. Whittemore, . " 



During the evening the following address to Captain Lefroj-, G ' B "vi^ 'll-e' « 



was read by Professor Cherriman, First Vice-President, on the Thos. Hodo-ins "_" '_'_'_ " « 



part of the membei-s of the Institute. Professor Cherriman J. D. Phillips, ) t • . -iir i , u 



introduced the subject of the address in very feeling and appro- H. Davis, j '' 



priate terms : ^^°"- J- G"; Spragge, « 



J. L. Robmson, " 



TO CAPTAIN LEFKOr, "R. A., F. E. S., PRESIDENT OF THE CANADIAN ThoUiaS Wheeler _ _ « 



INSTITUTE. E. D. Palmer, ._ .' ""'''1^1^. I « 



Canadian Institute, E. W. Beaven, « 



Toronto, April 2nd, 1853. ^- Crooks, " 



Dear Sir,— This being the last occasion on which the R M w'lb*^'^"'^'""' « 



members of the Institute may hope to have the honour of your ' " ^^ 



company and presidenc}-, we cannot let it pass without some ^^6 Hon. P. B. DeBlaquiere was duly proposed a member of 



attempt to express to yon our earnest thanks for the services you the Institute, 



have rendered the Institute, and our ffreat regret that the call of ti, /• n • ^ i.- • i • i 



J i i,„. 11 „ !■ J. ne toJlowmg resolution was carried unanimous y: — 



duty should summon you away from us. ° •' 



-„.,_,., , , ^ . , , _ . I hat the cordial thanks of the Institute be tendered to those 



We teel bir, that not only the Institute, but the Province ,, , • i i i, ^i • i -i ,.• ■ ^ i- ^^ 



;^^^^e „„.„„ ^„ , „ i,„ jii f lu i i- i * gentlemen who assisted, by their contributions, m decorating: the 



itselt, owes you a heavy debt of gratitude, and in your departure '^ ' •' i o 



will sustain a loss not easily to be repaired. Hall of the Legislative Assembly at the late Conversazione. 



The zeal and ability with which you have discharged the ^' ''"'''' ^''° ''''°^""^' '^'^"^ '^ ^^ ''»'^ instruction to the Council 



difficult and laborious duties that devolved on you, in carrying ^° ^^^^ arrangements for opening the Rooms of the Institute, 



out the system of Magnetical Observation established by the at least once a week, to the member^, until the commencement 



liberality of the Imperial Government ; the investigations of mag- of the next Session. 



netical and meteorological phenomena, with which your name is ti ^^ ■, ■, -n, i- /-.i • i- ^ it- 

 inseparably associated f and the various scientific memoirs that ^' ^■''' ^^^" announced by Professor Chernman, fii-st Vice- 

 proceeded from your pen during this period, have not only been President, that the Session of the Institute was now terminated; 

 of incalculable service in promoting the interests of Science in and that the First Ordinary Meeting of the next Session would 

 the Province, but have also caused the name of Canada, and of take place in December, of which due notice will be given in the 

 Toronto in particular, to be honoured in all parts of the world Canadian Journal 

 where science is cultivated. ' ■ < < . ^^ 



We must not forget also that to you is mainly due the rise On the Poisonous Plants Avhich arc indigenous to, or which 

 and progress of this, the only active scientific Society in Upper '^"^^ bocoire naturaliztd, in the neighborhood of Toronto, 

 Canada,— a result brought about not only by your own exertions "•^ Edward M. Holder, M.C., & M.K.C.S. Professor of Ob- 

 and example, but also by that unfailing courtesy and kindliness stctiics &c., •» t'.ie Universily of Trinity College. 

 which has always marked your intercourse with us, and which In the course of time many wise theories have been held cur- 

 has inspired us all with the strongest feelings of esteem, and rent in physic, and many vain promises made by the empirical, 

 pennit us to say, of affection towards you. yet I am not acquainted with any apothegm half so wise as that 



We thank you. Sir, for having acceded to our request, that we '"'^'l'^}^ condensed by Dr. Cullen, into two lines of small pica, 



might be permitted to retain a memorial of yourself, in the form '"'"'■^ '''^"''' •'"'^ '"^ '''"°"'' •"" 



of your portrait, which will always serve to remind the Society ' I have cured weak stomachs hj engaging the pereons in the 



of how much it owes you, and will be treasured by it as a choice study of bolany, and jiaitioulaily in the investigation of native 



heirloom. jilauts.' 



Wo now beg of you to accept the accompanying piece of This then, being a so\oreign panacea for the cure of many of 



pl.ite, as a slight token of our esteem and gratitude, receiving the ills which flesh is heir to in this thriving city, I hope I shall 



with it an earnest assurance, that much as wo deplore your do- bo excused for calling the attention of this meeting to a .short 



