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Being a Continuation of the "Canadian Journal" of 

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CONTENTS: 



Page 

 NINTH MEETING, 10th January, 1885 VO 



Notation for Physical Units. By Dr. Macfarlane SI 



TENTH MEETING, 17th January, 1885 86 



1. — The Spherical Aberration of Mirrors. By Professor Locdon 87 



2. — Some of Our Mioratort Birds. By Hon. G. W. Allan 87 



ELEVENTH MEETING, 24th January, 1885 100 



Systematic Charity. By D. A. O'Sullivan, M.A., LL.B 101 



TWELFTH MEETING, 31st January, 1885 .....109 



Forestry. Bt K. W. Phipps, Esq lOP 



THIRTEENTH MEETING, 7th February, 1885 112 



The Ruminants of the North-West. By Ernest E. T. Seton, Esq 113 



FOURTEENTH MEETING, 14th February, 1886 11? 



The Decimal System Applied to Ti m. By W. J. Loudon, B. A 118 



FIFTEENTH MEETING, 21st February, 1885 120 



Fossil Sharks of the Devonian. By Mr. Lennox 20 



SIXTEENTH MEETING, 28th February, 1885 121 



The Centrifugal Forces of the Planets. By Mr. John Phillips . , . 122 



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