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scheme. If the idea should be favourably received details can be 

 considered at leisure, and the plan modified as seems best. 



Briefly, then, I would suggest the establishment of say four sec- 

 tions as follows : — 



A. — Mathematics, Physics and Mechanics. 



B. — Chemistry, Mineralogy aiid Geology. 



G. — Biology. 



U. — Ethnology, Philology, History and Economy. 



Each of these sections should have its own chairman and secre- 

 tary, who, with the officers of the Institute, might constitute the 

 general council. 



Each section might meet once a month, and whenever there was a 

 paper of sufficiently general interest to merit its being read before 

 the whole body of members, a general meeting of the Institute 

 might be held. 



I am fully aware that the division that I have suggested is far 

 from a philosophical one, and I am in no way wedded to any of the 

 details of the scheme. All I ask is that the members of the Institute 

 will give the matter their consideration, and if it seems to them that 

 the change will be likely to have the effect of arousing more interest 

 in the meetings of the Canadian Institute and of furthering the 

 objects that we all have at heart, then I shall be happy to adopt any 

 modification that the Institute think best, and I will gladly co-operate 

 in giving such a scheme a fair trial. 



FOURTH ORDINARY MEETING. 



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

 held on Saturday, November 22nd, the President in the 

 Chair. 



The minutes of last meeting were read and confirmed. 



Donations and Exchanges received since last meeting : 



1. The Canadian Entomologist, Vol. XVI., No. 8, August, 1884. 



2. Monthly Weather Review, October, 1884. 



3. Monthly Health Bulletin of Ontario, September, 1884. 



4. Science, Vol. IV., No. 93, November 14th, 1884. 



5. Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers for September, 



1884. 



6. Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History, Vol. III., No. 10 



May, 1884. 



