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SEVENTEENTH ORDINARY MEETING. 



"The Seventeenth Ordinary Meeting of the Session i884-'85, 

 was held on Saturday, March 7th, 1885, the President in the 

 Chair. 

 The minutes of last meeting were read and confirmed. 



The following list of donations and exchanges was read : 



1. Transactions of the Manitoba Historical and Scientiiic Society, ISTos. 12—18, 



Annual Report for 1884-5. 



2. Canadian Practitioner, Vol. X., No. 3, March, 1885. 



3. Science, Vol. V., No. 108, February 27, 1885. 



4. American Journal of Science, March, 1885. 



5. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. XLV., No. 3, 



January, 1885. 



6. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, Series II., Vol. V., Part 1, 



February, 1885. 



7. Bulletin de la Society Geologique de France, 3e Serie, Tome XIII., 1885, 



No. 1. 



Mr. T. H. Lennox was elected a member. 



Mr. Charles Levey read a paper on " Gold Mining on the 

 Saskatchewan," of which the following is an abstract : 



The gold fields referred to are at and near Edmonton, on the 

 North Saskatchewan Eiver, N. W. T., Canada. The deposit, through 

 which the present river cuts, is said to extend some sixty miles east 

 and west. The northern and southern limits are not known. The 

 thickness of the deposit is partly seen by the height of the river 

 banks which, at the point refei-red to, are at least two hundred feet 

 hio-h. At the highest points, on some of these banks, gold can be 

 washed out, but the quantity per cubic yard of dirt increases as we 

 near the present water level. On the gravel bars the yield by hand 

 working is about $L60 per cubic yard. The gold is in the shape of 

 very fine dust and minute nuggets. The largest of these nuggets is 

 not larger than the smallest mustard seed. The hand-mode of separ- 

 ating the gold from the dirt will be understood by reference to the 

 sketches in which A is the Dump Box, B the Grisley, and C the 

 Blanket Box. The Dump Box is tilled with gravel, after which 

 water is dashed upon it by the aid of a long handled dipper. This 



