:304: PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



11. Boletin de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias en Cordoba (Eepublica 



Argentina), Tomo VIII., Entrega la. 



12. Anales del Circulo Medico Argentino, Afio VIII., Marzo, 1885, Tomo 



VIII., Num. 3. 



13. Ymer Tidskrift utgifven af Svenska Sallskapet fiir Antropologie och 



Geografi, Haft 1884 (Fjere argangen), 5e, 6e, 7e, och 8e, 1885 (Femte 

 argoangen), Ic, Haftet. 



14. M^moires et Compte Hendu des Travaux de la Society des Ingenieurs 



Givils, Janvier, 1883 ; Juin et Juillet, 1884 ; Annuaire de 1885. 



15. Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft fiir Erdkiinde zu Berlin, Band XII., 



Nos. 1, 2, 3. 



Mr. Joseph J. Woodhouse was elected a member. The 

 Secretary read the Annual Report, as follows : 



ANNIJAL REPORT OF THE CANADIAN, INSTITUTE. 



SESSION 1884-85. 



The Council of the Canadian Institute have the honour to lay 

 before the members their Thirty-Sixth Annual Report. 



During the past session twenty-four meetings have been held, at 

 w^hich thirty papers have been read. The character of the papers 

 and the degi-ee of interest shown in the meetings have been highly 

 satisfactory. 



It is gratifying to observe that the membership continues to in- 

 crease, forty new members having been added to the roll during the 

 past session. 



The interest taken by members in the Library and Reading Room 

 also continues to grow, as shown by the fact that while last year 860 

 books and periodicals were issued to members, the number this year 

 was 1,533. 



Last year an effort was made to bind the transactions and periodi- 

 cals, which have for some years been allowed to accumulate. The 

 affort has been continued this year, during which 161 volumes have 

 been bound and placed on the shelves. 



The number of transactions of learned societies received in ex- 

 change for our Proceedings continues to increase, one hundred and 

 sixty societies having this year sent copies of their publications. 



It is highly gratifying to the Council to call attention to the fact 

 that at the International Conference held at Washington in October, 

 1884, for the purpose of establishing a prime meridian, the proposals 

 first made at a meeting of the Canadian Institute by Mr. Sandford 



