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II. Professor Chapman deposited with the Institute, on the part of T. Sterry 

 Hunt, Esq., of Montreal, a sealed packet, containing a notice of some researches 

 to be communicated to the Institute, hereafter, in a more complete form. 

 III. The following Papers were read : 



1. By Kev. Prof. Young, M.A. : 



"On the impossibility of representing by Algebraical functions the roots of 

 Equations of a higher order than the fourth." 



2. By F. W. Cumberland, Esq., C. E. : 



" Notes on the paper read by Mr, Henning at the last meeting, on our Educa- 

 tional System." 



3. By M. A. Coulon, C.E. : 



"On an improved floor, specially applicable for ground floors." 



SIXTEENTH ORDINARY MEETING l^th April, 1858. 



Col. Baron de Rottenbtjrg, C.B., Vice-President, in the Chair. 

 I. The following Gentlemen were nominated for election as Members : 

 Thomas Reynolds, Esq., M.D., Brockville, C.E. 

 J. J. Burrows, Esq., Kingston. 

 The following Gentlemen were nominated for election as Junior Members : 

 G. T. Carruthers, Esq., 'I'rinity College, Toronto. 

 C. J. Bethune, Esq., " " " 



II. The following Paper was read : 

 By F. W. Cumberland, Esq., C.E. : 



" Notes on the course of the "Western Trade, Eastward to the Atlantic." 



III. Messrs. Spreull, and Spratt were nominated Auditors for the present year. 



IV. The Chairman announced this meeting as the closing one, and took occasion 

 to congratulate the Institute on having thus brought another session to a successful 

 termination. The communications read before the meetings had been of a highly 

 varied character, and while he believed that they had in some respects been less 

 attractive to many than those of some previous season s, he was inclined, from his 

 own observation, to look upon this as no unfavorable aspect. The communica- 

 tions of this year would, he believed, be found to have included more of a strictly 

 scientific character than in any previous session ; and if some of them were on that 

 account Jesa calculated to interest a popular audience, they would be found to main- 

 tain and extend that scientific character which it was most desired that the 

 Journal of the Canadian Institute should assume. The prospects of the Society 

 were now, in all respects, most encouraging. Their library had been greatly ex- 

 tended, by valuable additions of a strictly scientific character, both by purchase 

 and gift : and its utility had been largely increased through the exertions of their 

 efficient Librarian, Prof. Croft, by whom it had been systematically classified, 

 arranged and catalogued, during the session now brought to close. 



In concluding, the Vice-President invited the attention of the members during 

 the approaching summer to such subjects of interest in science, literature, and the 

 mechanical and industrial arts, as may furnish materials for valuable communi- 

 cations to future meetings, and contributions to the Journal of the Institute. He 

 then declared the adjournment to the 1st Saturday in December. 



