]94 ON THE COMPOSITION, STRUCTURE 



The name Oh-nya-ka-ra, " on or at the neck," is applied to the 

 whole stream of water between Lakes Erie and Ontario, and is derived 

 from 0-nya-ra, "neck" or contraction between head and trunk. 



The Mohawks applied this name to the neck-like contraction be- 

 tween the two lakes, and hence we have Niagara. 



In one of the excursions of the Mohavrks they are reported to have 

 found themselves in the Bay of Toronto. Casting their eyes, they 

 saw as it were, in every direction, trees standing in the water, hence 

 they called the place Ka-ron- to, " trees standing in the water," and 

 from which, doubtless, you get your Toronto, while Ontario is supposed 

 to be from Ken-ta-ri-yoh, " placid sheet of water." 



ON THE COMPOSITION, STRUCTURE AND DEVELOP- 

 MENT OF BONE. 



BY M. BARRETT, M.A., M.D. 



It cannot fail, I trust, to prove interesting, at the present time, to 

 collect and compare the several observations and experiments which 

 have been made within the last few years upon the development and 

 mode of growth of bony tissue. My especial purpose, however, in the 

 following remarks, is to bring before the notice of the meeting some 

 important experiments made within the last few years by Dr. Olliery 

 and which are fully recorded in the Journal de Physiologie for 1859, 

 edited by Brown Sequard. I am persuaded that their important bear- 

 ding on histology, and the kindred sciences, will ensure their due con- 

 sideration. To most members of the medical profession these obser- 

 vations are already known, having reached them through the several 

 journals specially devoted to medical science. No points of histolo- 

 gical enquiry are at the present day unworthy of our most earnest 

 attention, since it is only by carefully exploring the ground, which we 

 seem or may be thought already to possess, that any real advance can 

 be made in that science upon which rests the whole superstructure of 

 physiology. 



Before entering, however, more especially upon the consideration of 



