122 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



committee to consider the advisability of dividing the Insti- 

 tute into sections, in accordance with the suggestions con- 

 tained in the President's Inaugural Address, and to report 

 upon a scheme for that purpose if advisable : the President, 

 the Secretary, Mr. Boyle, Mr. Geo. E. Shaw, Mr. J. M. Buchan, 

 Mr. Alan Macdougall, Prof. Loudon, Mr. Murray, and the 

 mover and seconder." 



The following list of donations and exchanges was read : 



1. The Canadian Entomologist, XVII., Nos. 1 and 2, January and February, 



1885. 



2. Science, Vol. V., No. 107, February 20th, 1885. 



3. Journal of the New ^ ork Microscopical Society, Vol. I. , No. 2, February, 



1885. 



4. Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 



XIV., No. 3, February, 1885. 



5. Boletin de la Academia de Ciencias in Cordoba (Republica Argentina), 



Tomo VII., Entrega la, 2a. 



6. Annaes da Escola de Minas de Ouro Preto, No. 3., Rio de Janeiro, 1884. 



7. M^raoires et Compte Rendu des Travaux de la Soci6t^ des Ing^nieurs 



Civils, 4e S^ri6, 36e Annec, 12e Cahi6r, December, 1883, 4e S<irie, 37e 

 Aun6e 8e, et 9e Cahi6r, Aoftt et Septembre, 1884. 



8. Les Annales des Mines : — 



Septieme S^rie, M^moires, Tome XVI., 6e Livraison de 1879. Tomes 

 XVII., XVIII., XIX., XX., 1880, 1881. Huiti^me Serie, M(3moires, 

 Tomes I,, II., III., IV., V., Livraison Ire 2e, 3e, Tome VI., Livraison 

 4e, 5e, 1882, 1883, 1884. Lois D^crets, Arrets, 1880, 1881, 1882, 

 1883. 7e S6rie, Tomes IX., X. 8e S^rie, Tomes I., 11. 



9. Proceedings of the Conference relating to a Prime Meridian, from the 



Dominion Government. 



Mr. John Phillips read a paper on " The Centrifugal Forces 

 ot the Planets." 



The object of the paper was to establish the proposition that the 

 moon was projected vertically from the earth at an initial velocity 

 of about seven miles a second, the earth and moon having oi'iginally 

 formed a single mass. Mr. Phillips showed the process by which he 

 determined the velocity with which a heavy body falling from a 

 state of rest towards the earth from the distance of the moon would 

 strike the earth's surface, this being also the initial velocity with 

 which a body would have to be projected in order to ascend to that 

 distance. Having exhibited the formulae and substituted for the 

 genei'al terms the particular quantities as determined by observation, 



