PROCEEDINGS 



THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE, 



SESSION" 1884-'85. 



NINTH ORDINARY MEETING. 



The Ninth Ordinary meeting of the Session i884-'85, was 

 held on Saturday, January loth, 1885, the President in the 

 Chair. 



The minutes of last meeting were read and confirmed. 



The following gentlemen were elected members of the 

 Institute : 



George Eitcliie, B.A., B.Sc. ; Charles Ridout, Esq.; Alexander Macfarlane, 

 M.A. D. So., F.R.S.E. 



The following list of donations and exchanges received since 

 last meeting was read : 



I.— CANADA. 



1. Report of Progress, 1874-75. From the Geological Survey of Canada. 



2. Figures and Descriptions of Canadian Organic Remains. Decade II, 



(Jraptolites of the Quebec Group, by .James Hall, 1865. 



:i. Atlas of Maps and Sections to Report of Progress from the Commence- 

 ment to 1863. 



4. Geology of Canada. Palaeozoic Fossils, Vol. I., by E. Billings. 



5. Palaeozoic Fossils, Vol. II., Part I., by E. Billings. 



6. Palaeozic Fossils, Vol. III., Part I., by J. F. Whiteaves. 



7. Mesozoic Fossils, Vol. I., Part I. 



Mesozoic Fossils, Vol. I., Part III. 



8. Report on the Polyzoa of the Queen Charlotte Islands, by Rev. Thomas 



Hincks, 



9. The Fossil Plants of the Devonian and Upper Silurian Formations of 



Canada, by Sir J. W. Dawson. 



10. Report of the Fossil Plants of the Lower Carboniferous and Millstone 

 Grit Formation of Canada, by Sir J. W. Dawson. 



