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THIRD SERIES. VOL.jlII. V:.^<ic itCI FASCICULUS No. 1. 



proceedTngs 



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THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE, 



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PeING a PONTINUATION OF THE " PaNADIAN ToURNAL" OF 



^ciENCE, Literature and History. 



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 FIRST ORDINARY MEETING .~ i 



I.— Solutions of the Equations of the Fifth Degree. By Prof. Geo. P. Young. 7 

 2.— Geometrical Methods Chiefly in the Theory of Thick Lenses. By Prof. 

 J. Loudon 7 



SECOND ORDINARY MEETING -. 18 



On MeTamorphism in the Rhode Island Coal Basin. By Prof. T. Nelson Dale. 18 



THIRD ORDINARY MEETING 22 



Inaugural Address. By Prof. W. H. Ellis, President of the Institute 22 



FOURTH ORDINARY MEETING -. 38 



Wages. By W. A. Douglass, Esq., B. A 39 



FIFTH ORDINARY MEETING 41 



The Affection of Insects for Their Young. By Qapt. Gamjule Geddes, A.D.C.. 42 



SIXTH ORDINARY MEETING................ 42 



The Gaelic Topography of Damnonia. By Rev. Dr. Neil MacNish 43 



SEVENTH ORDINARY MEETING 57 



On the Number, Nature, and Musical Character of Vowel Sounds. By M. L. 



Rouse, Esq. 58 



EIGHTH ORDINARY MEETING 59 



Universal or Cosmic Time. By Sandford Fleming, Esq., C.M.G., F.G.S., &c 60 



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