50 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



SEVENTH ORDINABY MEETING. 



The Seventh Ordinary Meeting of 1883-84 was held on 

 Saturday, December 15th, the President in the chair. 



The minutes of last meeting were read and confirmed. 



The following gentlemen were admitted members : 



Mr. R. W. Phipps, Mr. William Leslie Beale, Mr. Arthur J. Graham, 

 John J. Cassidy, M. D. 



List of donations and exchanges received since last 

 meeting : — 



1. Journal of the Franklin Institute for October, 1883. 



2. Tillaeg til Aarboger for Norske. 

 Oldkyndighed og Historiae, Aargang, 1879. 



3. " " " 1880. 

 Kjobenhavn, 1880-81. 



4. Memoires de la Societe des Antiquaires du Nord, Nouvelle Serie, 1881. 



5. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, Vol. 



11, Nos. 3 and 4. 



6. Science, Vol. 2, No. 44, December 7th, 1883. 



7. Appleton's Literary Bulletin, December, 1883. 



8. Transactions of the Manitoba Historical and Scientific Society, Nos. 5 and 6. 



Nos. 1 and 2, 1883-4. 



9. Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Nos. 1 to 8, January to 



September, 1883. 



10. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vol. 52, Part 2, No. 1, 1883. 



11. Scientific Proceedings of the Ohio Mechanics' Institute, Vol. 2, No. 3, 



September, 1883. 



12. Waifs in Verse, by G. W. Wicksteed, Q. C. , Law Clerk House of Com- 



mons of Canada, presented by the author. 



13. Transactions of the Manchester Geological Society, Vol 17, Part 10, 



Sessions 1883-84. 



Mr. T. B. Browning, M. A., then read a paper entitled, 

 " England's Oldest Colony." 



Mr. Browning opened his paper by commenting upon the indiffer- 

 ence with which the Provinces of British North America treat each 

 other, and proceeded to discuss the rights which the French have in 

 that part of Newfoundland called the French Shore under the treaties 

 of Utrecht, Paris, and subsequent arrangements. He also alluded 

 to the Banks fishery, and stated that the French employ about 700 

 ships in this and the shore fishery, about 28,000 seamen, and make- 



