180 CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



Prof. Wilson, LL.D. — *'0a Certain Homogenp.ous Characteristics ascribed to the 

 Aboriginal Tribes of this Continent." 21sfc March, 1857. 



John McNaughton, Esq. — " Remarks on the Relations of Canada to the adjacent 

 Territories." 21st March, 1857. 



Rev. A. 0. Geikie. — " On Canadian English." 28th March, 1857. 



Col. Baron de Rottenburg, C.B. — " On the Planetary Appearance of Stars of the 

 1st and 2nd Magnitudes, on the night of the 12th March, and the oceultation of 

 Spica Virginis by the Moon on the morning of the 18th." 4th April, 1857. 



Gr. D. Gribb, M.D. — " On Supposed Fossils found in Buckingham, England." 4th 

 April, 1857. 



Prof. Cherriman, M.A.— " On Vision." ISth April, 1857. 



J. Hirschfelder, Esq. — " Observations on Bedding out Plants." 18th April, 1857. 



Prof. Chapman. — "On the occurrence of the genus Cryptoeeras in Silurian 

 Rocks." 18th April, 1857. 



It is believed that the papers enumerated in the above list will compare favor- 

 ably with those of other years : more especially, as several have been deemed 

 ■worthy of republication in some of the leading Scientific Journals of Europe. It 

 is also gratifying to observe, "with regard to these papers, that the appeal of pre- 

 ceding" Councils for more active co-operation on the part of Members generally, 

 has been to a great extent responded to. The present Council venture, therefore, 

 to express a hope that a still more extended co-operation in this department, may 

 be anticipated in the session now about to commence. 



Feeling strongly that the success of the Institute is dependent on, or at least 

 largely influenced by, the success of its Journal, the Council have great satisfac- 

 tion in alluding to the now fairly established and very marked success which has 

 accompanied the issue of the new series of the " Canadian Journal," under the 

 editorship of Dr. Wilson and a Committee appointed by the respective 

 Councils of 1855 and 1856. The Council cannot allow this opportunity to pass 

 without expressing an earnest desire that some special recognition on the part of 

 the Members of the Institute, be devised to mark their sense of the zealous and 

 valuable services of the chief editor. The following is the Report of the' Editing 

 Committee, to which the Council beg to direct especial attention : 



REPORT OF THE EDITING COMMITTEE. 



With the close of the second volume of the Canadian Journal (N. S.) the 

 Editing Committee beg to report to the Council, that they have continued during 

 the past year to carry out the instructions originally drawn up for their guidance, 

 with such partial modifications as experience has suggested. The success of the 

 Journal has been such as they believe fully to confirm the opinion in which the 

 HewSeriesginated, that the time had oricome for the maintenance in Canada of a 

 periodical specially devoted to original communications in Science and Literature. 



From a desire to render the Journal more attractive, in some respects, to the 

 general readei', the sum of £43 5s. has been expended during the past year on 

 illustrations but as, in its new form, it is regarded as still in some respects an 

 experiment, this increased outlay has been counterbalanced in part by economizing 

 the accompanying letter-press. Still further, by the exercise of a careful over- 

 sight in the preparation of M.SS. for the press, along with the exertions of those 

 Editors of Sections, who have mainly conlributed the materials for the second 



