178 CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



Feom Professor Hind, M.A, 

 A Trilobite Bed — TJtica Slate from the Blue Mountains, Collingwood. 

 Graptolite Bed — Hudson River Group, from Humber River, near Toronto. 

 Fueoid and Ripple Marks, — Hudson River Group, Humber River. 

 Black River and Birds-eye Limestone, from Lake Couchiching. 

 Tracks of Crustacea — Potsdam Sandstone, Beauharnois. 

 Large Single Trilobite. 



From Major F. "Wells, 1st Royal Regiment. 

 A Stone Hammer picked up in the third parallel, left attack, of the Trenches of 

 Sebastopol, about three feet sis inches under ground. 



From Major Rains, St. Joseph's Island, C.W. 



Greek Coins, Silver, 10 ; Brass, 36 46 



Roman Coins, Silver, 61 : Brass, 53 .... „ 114 



Mediceval and Modern Coins, Gold, 1 ; Silver, 40; Copper, 72 113 

 Brunei Medal 1 



Total 274 



Specimens of Lapis Lazuli, Copper, and Copper Oxe, from Bmee Mines. 



From Angus MoIntosh, Esq., per J, Thompson, Esq. 

 Several specimens of Copper Ore and Virgin Copper, <fec., viz. : 

 Five specimens — Crystalline Copper and Quartz, from Wellington Mines. 

 Samples 1, 2 and 3 Washing of Crushed Copper Quartz, Bruce Muxes. 

 Nine specimens of Copper Ore and Quartz, Bruce Mines. 

 Eight specimens of Copper Ore from the Bruce Mines. 

 Forty-one specimens of Fossils, from Manitouwaning, Manitoulin Island. 

 Two specimens of Iron Ore, from Lake Superior Mines. 

 One specimen of Silver from same place. 

 One specimen Conglomerate Rock, from Sault St. Marie. 



One specimen Grey Copper, from Wellington Mines, near the Bruce, Lake Huron. 

 Four specimens of Native Copper, from Mines on Lake Superior. 

 One specimen of Dry Crushed Copper, from Bruce Mines. 

 Nineteen specimens of Crystalline Copper Quartz, from the Bruce Mines. 



From Dr. Gibb, London. 

 Concretions from Buckinghamshire, England. 



Sis Beetles with specimens of Reptiles from the Valley of Inkerman, Crimea,'viz.: 

 Nineteen Snakes, various ; three Lizards, various ; three Millepedes ; three Centi- 

 pedes. 

 Also a specimen of a Pipe Fish, and of a Centipede Cricket. 



The subjoined list contains the titles of the various Papers read at the ordinary 

 Meetings of the Session, 1856-51 : 



COMMUNICATIONS. 



Capt. Kennedy.^" On the Proposed Espedition to the Arctic regions in further 

 search of tlie records or remains of Sir John Franklin." 6th December, 1856. 



Rev. W. A. Adamson, D.C.L. — On the Decrease, Restoration and Preservation 

 of the Salmon in Canada." 6th December, 1856. 



Prof. Chapman.—" On some Trilobites found at Whitby, Canada West." ISth 

 December, 1S56. 



