INDEX. 



Pages, 

 A.cadeniy of Sciences, Paris, Prizes of - - - - - 48 



■Accidents, Railway -•-----. -8 



" in Mines ---------23 



Accidental Discoveries -.-...-.- 207 

 Address by Mr. Justice Draper - - - - - -217 



Agricultural Engineering ...... 12, 39 



HaU at Toronto, (Proy. Slio-sv.) .... 51 



" Machinery and Implenaeuts - - - - 56 



« Extracts - - - - - - - - HI 



Products of the United States, 1850 - - - 119 

 Allan, G. W. on the land birds ■wintering in the neighbourhood 



of Toronto 169 



Alcohol, new - - - - ■ - - - ■ -118 



Almanac, Nautical, Davis' "Report on - - - - - 129 



Amazon, the ship ---------24 



America, North, Tvoods of .......74 



American Journal of Science and Art . - - . - 114 

 Aramonical Liquor -......-- 103 



Analysis of the Pj'ovincial Exhibition ----- 64 



Anastatic Printing ---------95 



Annual General Meeting of the Canadian Institute - - - 97 



" Conversazione do. do. do. - - - 202 



Apparatus for collecting specimens of Natural History - - 177 



ArchiLtctuval Notices ........51 



Ai-row, Anglo-Saxou -..-...-24 

 Artesian WeU, St. Louis -....-. 237 



Aj'titicial breeding of Fish - - - - - --18 



Association, Provincial Agricultural ----- 23 



" British, for the ad\ancemeut of knowledge - - 81 



" " Proceedings of, in September, 1852 - - 95 



Associations, Farmers --------22 



Astronomical Clock - - - - -- - - 215 



Aurora BoreaUs, theory of ------- 95 



" " at Toronto, (see meteorological reports) - 

 Australia, Gold Fields of 23 



Battery, Golding Bird's - - - - - - - -16 



"' New voltaic --------17 



" Graphite ---------96 



Maynooth 243 



Bees, Remedy' for the stings of - - . - - - - 189 



Bessemei's new mothod of manufacturing sugar - - - 116 

 Binocular Microscope ..---..- 144 

 Birds, directions for skinning and stuffing .... 170 



Birds wintering near Toronto ..-.-.. 169 

 Bogs, Irish .......... 265 



BoUer, Steam, prevention of incrustations in - - - - 24 



" Explosions --------24 



Bond, W. and Sons, Boston .-...-. 215 

 Boring operations --------- 216 



Botanists ..........79 



British Seas, Natural History of - - - - - - 1 09 



Brock Monument; ---...-- -22, 41 

 Burns, Death of the Great-Grandchildren of - - - - 168 



Cabinet Department, Provincial Show, ----- 68 



Calf, Prize, Notice of 63 



Caloric Engine, Ericsson's ------ 249, 271 



Canada, Telegraph Lines in- ------21 



in 1853 32 



" at tlie Great Exhibition ------ 38 



Canals of -46,91,118. 



" Progress of ........51 



" Hourly thermometi'ic corrections for - - - - 77 



" Geological Survey of - - - - • - -112 



Rocks of 124 



" Mineral Springs of - - - • - -,-151 

 " Upper, Census of -------96 



Canadian Railways- - - - - - - - -102 



" Productions of the Forest ..... 73 



" Shipping 166 



Canadian Institute, History of ..... . 3 



" " Correspondence of . . . . 14, 137 



" " Objects of. Circulars of . . . .25 



" '■ Officers and members of . . . .49 



" " Regulations of ..... 50 



" " Pccuniarv resources of . . . . 73, 99 



Pages. 

 Canadian Institute, Council of for 1852-3 .... 97 

 Transactions of . 50, 97, 121 ,145, 147, 151, 161, 

 184, 202, 217, 218, 220, 223, 254. 

 " " Annual Address of the President . . 121 

 " " Memorial to the three branches of the Legis- 

 lature . . 145 



" " Annual Conversazione .... 202 



" " Address of the Members to Capt. Lefroy, R.A., 204 



Canadian Journal, objects of . . . . . . . 5, 25 



Canal Tolls 46,91 



Candles, manufacture of. . . . . . .158 



Caoutchouc, new compound of ..... . 264 



Cart, Harvest 13 



Cause of the high temperature of rivers ..... 96 



Centrifugal Action, application of 11 



Census of Upper Canada .96 



Cherriraan, Professor, on the Atmospheric Phenomena of Light. 6, 25 

 " " on the Provincial Currency . . . 177 



Charity 120 



Chemistiy, application of . 10 



" Graham's Elements of . . . . . 19 



Chimney of St. RoUox's Chemical Works . . . . 12 



Chromatic Photo. printing 216 



Clock Electric 44 



Cloves of Commerce, .116 



Coal Fields, the origin of 279 



Coal in Ireland 266 



Coal Gas, manufacture of 28, 77, 1 58 



Commissioners of Public Works, Report of .... 90 



Copper, ductility of 262 



" sources of the supply of . . . . . . 266 



CoiTcctions, Tbermomotric, for Canada ..... 77 



Correspondence — 



Canadian Institute and Society of Arts .14, 112 



Natural History Society of Montreal . . 137 

 Memorial of the Institute . • . . . 145 

 Reply of Pi-ovincial Secretary to Memorial . 184 

 Railroad Termini and Pleasure Grounds . 233 

 Mineral Wealth of Nova Scotia . . .241 



' Rara Avis' 260 



Coloured snow, hail and rain ...... 261 



Croft, Professor, on Gas Patents 28, 77 



" " on the Mineral Springs of Canada . . . 151 



Crystal Palace, New York 69 



GusTency, the Provincial ....... 177 



Dade, Rev. C, notice of Indian Remains ----- 6 



Darien Ship Canal - 236 



Davis, Report on tlie Nautical Almanac ----- 129 



Deep Sea Soundings ........ 264 



Diamond, the Koh-i-noor -------95 



Digging Machine ----..... 244 



Draper, Mr. Justice, Address of, before Canadian Institute - 217 



Dublin Great Industrial Exhibition .... 253-265 



Earth, Figure of -..g5 



Earthquake, Shock at Toronto, 13th March, 1853 - - - 185 

 East India Company, Finances of - - - - - - 24 



Educational Department, Provincial Show - - - - 61 



Eggs, importation of in England ------ 24 



" Preservation of-------- 116 



Electricity, Galvatd, Lecture on ----- - 264 



" " Couductability of Minerals for - - - 264 



Electric Light 118 



Clock 44 



" Time Ball in the Strand. 47 



" Current, force of. Ohm's formula .... 228 



" Light and Colour Manufacture ..... 242 



" Telegraphing, Progress of - - - - - - 72 



" Telegraphs in India ------- 120 



" " ill Canada ----- . 21 



Electrotyping, operations of the United States Coast Survey - 227 

 Engineering, Agricultural - - - - - - 11, 39 



Entomological Curiosity - - - - - - -189 



Ericsson's Hot Air or Caloric Engine .... 249, 271 



Ether, Butyric - - 10 



Exhibition, Provincial ----....23 



