298 CA>3AD1AN INSTITUTE. 



REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN ON THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE, FOR 

 THE YEAR 1864. 

 No changes have been made in the arrangement of the Library during the 

 year. Accommodation more ample for the annually increasing number of volumes 

 will be provided in the building to -which the Institute purposes shortly to 

 remove. The additions to our shelves by purchase, indeed, have not been many 

 our resources available for that purpose being limited ; but the collection con- 

 tinues to be enlarged and enriched by the transmission to it of the valuable 

 publications periodically put forth by scientific and literary societies in Europe" 

 British America, and the United States. These consist, this year, of about forty 

 unbound volumes or parts, including especially four late Reports of the Geological 

 Survey of India, with very fine illustrative plates; and about thirty pamphlets' 

 to which are to be added (in parts) a set of the Annual Reports of the Leeds 

 Philosophical and Literary Society" from 1830 to 1863 ; also a set (in parts) of 

 the Preceedings of the Geological and Polytechnic Society of the West Riding of 

 Yortshire, from 1840 to 1862; and ten parts of the Journal of the Proceedings of 

 the Linnsean Society, completing the set in the possession of the Institute to 1864. 

 The Reports and Transactions just enumerated are principally in exchange for 

 the Journal published by the Canadian Institute." 



Several parliamentary and public official documents have also been forwarded 

 to the Institute, by the kindness and attention of Members of the Provincial 

 Legislature. 



The volumes of the Library, to which reference was made in the last Annual 

 Report as having been too long out on loan among the members of the Institute 

 have, in the majority of instances, been returned. 



In conclusion, the Librarian has pleasure in adding that he has prepared a new 

 catalogue of all the pamphlets in the possession of the Institute. In it, he has* 

 classified them by subjects, leaving spaces for the entry of future acquisitions* 

 This will facilitate their being bound up in volumes at some subsequent time. 



H. SoADDiNG, Librarian. 



November 26, 1864. 



In presenting their last Report, the Council had occasion to express their regret 

 at the loss of the services of their Recording Secretary, Patrick Freeland, Esq., 

 through severe illness. They have now to perform the melancholy duty of 

 reporting his death, which occurred in May last, [1864] and, in doing so, they 

 desire to record the deep sense which they entertain of the loss sustained by 

 ''he Institute in the death of bo valuable an officer, and of one who always mani- 

 fested so warm an interest in its welfare. 



The Council have also to record their regret that George A. Wilson, Esq., who 

 was appointed the successor of Mr. Freeland, was also compelled to resign his 

 office through illness. The Council thereupon appointed Mr. W. M. Clark to 

 discharge the duties of Secretary, ad interim. 



