18 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



SECOND ORDINARY MEETING. 



The Second Ordinary Meeting of the Session i884-'85,was 

 held on Saturday, November 8th, the President, Prof. W. H. 

 EUis, in the Chair, 



The minutes of last meeting were read and confirmed. 



The following gentlemen were elected members of the 



Institute ; — 



T. J. Mulvey, B.A., T. A. Haultain, B.A., H. R. Wood, B.A., J. H. Bowes, 

 B.A., Charles Whetliam, B.A., J. C. Smoke, M.A., Geo. G. S. Lindsey, B.A., 

 F. C. Mensinga, Esq., W. Dale, M.A., W. A. Frost, B.A., Geo. Inglis, B.A., 

 John Nairn, Esq., J. D. Barnett, Esq., D. S. Talbot, Esq., Prof. T. Nelson 

 Dale, E,ev. George Burnfield, M. A. 



The following list of donations and exchanges received 



since last meeting was read : 



1. The Canadian Practitioner for November, 1884. 



2. Science, Vol. IV., No. 91, October 31st, 1884. 



3. Science Record, Vol. II., No. 12, October 15th, 1884. 



4. Journal of the Franklin Institute for November, 1884. 



5. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society, Vols. VII. and VIIL, 



Lent and Easter Terms, 1884. 



6. Bulletin de la Society d'Anthroxiologie de Paris, Tome Septi^me (Ille Serie) 



3e Fascicule, Mai a Juillet, 1884. 



Prof. T. Nelson Dale then read the following paper : — 



ON METAMORPHISM IN THE RHODE ISLAND COAL 



BASIN. 



Sir Charles Lyell, m a paper read before the Geological Society of 

 London in 1844, called the attention of British Geologists to the 

 occurrence near Worcester, in Massachusetts, of a bed of Plumbago 

 and Anthracite, which he was inclined to believe belonged to the 

 Carboniferous Formation.* The Geological Survey of Rhode Island 

 by Dr. Jackson, published in 1840, that of Massachiisetts by Presi- 

 dent Edward Hitchcock in 1841, a short paper by the same on the 

 Rhode Island coal field in 1853, as well as two papers by his son, 



* Ch. Lyell, On the probable age and origin of a bed of Plumbago and Anthracite oeeurring In 

 Mica-schist near Worcester, Mass. — Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, 

 Vol. I., 1S45. See also on the Worcester beds the following paper, which has appeared since 

 mine was read. Joseph H. Perry, Note on a Fossil Coal Plant found at the Graphite deposit 

 in Mica-schist, at Worcester, Mass. — American Journal of Science, Vol. XXIX,, p. 157, Feb., 

 18S5. 



