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CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



EIGHTH OBDINART MEETING — itk March, 1865. 



Vice-President G. T. Kingston, M.A , in the Chair. 

 I. Tlie follovnng donations for the Library were announced, and the thanks of the 



Institute voted to the donors : 

 From J. M. Brodhead, "Washington, D. C, U. S. : 

 Reports of Commissioner oi" Patents, 1861. 



Arts and Manufactures, Vols. 1 and 2 2 



From P. McGregor, Esq., Barrister, Toronto : 



Bailey's Astronomical Tables, 1827 1 



From Dr. Oldham, Superintendent of the Geologicfil Survey of India : 

 Anniaal Report of the Survey and Museum, 1863-64, eighth year. 

 Annual Report of the Survey and Museum, 1862-63, eighth year; 1 pamphlet 

 Memoirs of the Survey. Vol. 3, part 2, ; 1 pamphlet 

 " " Vol. 4, part 2 ; 1 pamphlet. 



From the Education Office, Upper Canada. 



Remarks on the New Separate School Agitation. 1 pamphlet, 

 II. A Paper was read by the Rev. Prof. W. Hincks, F.L.S., Ac: "Thoughts oq 

 Belief and Evidence." 



ninth ordinary meeting — Wth March, 1865. 

 The Rev. H. Soadding, D.D., in the Chair. 



I. A. G. McMillan, Barrister, Toronto, was elected a Member. 



II. The following Donations to the Library were announced by the Secretary: 

 From Hod. J. M. Brodhead, Washington, D. C, U. S. 



Report of the Superintendent of the Coast Survey, shewing the progress 

 during the year 1862. Vol. 9, 1862-63. 1 volume. 



Results of the Meteorological Observations made under the directions of the 

 United States Patent Office and the Smithsonian Institution, from 1854 to 1859 

 inclusive. Vol. 2, part 1. 1 volume. 



III. Oronhyatekha (a Mohawk Indian) read a Paper " On the Grammatical 

 structure of the Mohawk Language." 



TENTH ORDINARY MEETING — ISth March, 1865. 



Vice-President M. Barrett, Esq., M.A., M.D., iu the Chair. 



I. The following donations to the Museum were presented by S. Fleming, Esq., 

 Civil Engineer : 



One specimen of Iron Ore ; one specimen of Pig Iron ; one specimen of Bar 

 Iron, from the Acadian Iron Works, Nova Scotia. 



