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shewing, as these facts most assuredly do, the honorable position accorded to the 

 Institute in the estimation of the Province. 



The following statement exhibits the alteration in the Roll of Membership : — 



Number of Members at the commencement of present Session 5t5 



New Members elected during the Session 50 



•' " by Council during the Recess 4 — 54 



629 

 Members deceased, 4 ; left the Province or withdrawn 11 — 15 



Total number now on the books of the Institute 614 



Although the increase in the number of Members is below that of the last Ses- 

 sion, it is still sufBciently large to be deemed satisfactory ; being, in fact, consider- 

 ably above the average annual returns of many of the long incorporated and most 

 successful Societies of Europe. 



In the following list, an enumeration is given of the various works added to the 

 Library by purchase during the past year : — 



BOOKS PURCHASED FOR THE LIBRARY. 

 . Books marked (*) are ia parts, or unbound. 



Encyclopaedia Britannica. Vols. XL, XII, XHL and Supplement. 



Notes and Queries. Vol. I., 2nd Series. January to June, 1856. 



Orr's Circle of the Sciences — Practical Chemistry. 



Earl Stanhope's (L. Mahon's) History of England. Vols. V., VI. and VII. 



Hugh Miller's Testimony of the Rocks. 



Morton's Crania Americana. 



Morton's Crania iEgyptiaca ; or Observations on Egyptian Ethnography. 



Johnson's Physical Atlas. Imperial folio. Enlarged edition, 1856. 



Crania Britannica. Decades I. and II. 



Blodget's Climatology of the United States. 



Indigenous Races of the Earth ; or New Chaptei's of Ethnological Inquiry. 



History of Civilization in England. By H. T. Buckle, 1857. Vol. L 



Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton. By Sir David Brewster. 2 vols. 



Visite a I'exposition universelle de Paris en 1855. 



Monumenta Historica Britannica. 



Edgar A. Poe's Miscellaneous Works. 4 volSi 



Arago's Biographies of Distinguished Men. 



Marryat's Pottery and Porcelain. 



Life of George Stephenson. 



Schoolcraft's Iroquois Indians. 



Gray's Botanic Text Book. 



Gray's Manual of Botany. 



Westwood on Insects. 2 vols. - • 



Herring on Paper Making. 



Gosse's Canadian Naturalist. 



Memorials of A. Crosse, Electrician. 



Fairbairn's Information for Engineers. 



Schoolcraft's Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes. 



Masson's Essays on English Poets. 



