VOL. I. FASCICULUS No. 4. 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE, 



TORONTO. 



Being a continuation of the "Canadian Journal" of 

 Science, Literature and History. 



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CONTENTS:^; % 



^v^t^POSi ' Page. 



ON DEMODEX PHYLLOIDES, (CSOKOR), IN THE SKIN OF CANADIAN SWINE. By r! 



Ramsay Wright, M.A., B. Sc, Professor in University College. Toronto 275 



SOME LAWS OF PHONETIC CHANGE IN THE KHITAN LANGUAGES. By John Camp- 

 bell, M.A., Professor in the Presbyterian College, Montreal 282 



NOTES ON SOME CANADIAN INFUSORIA. By J Playfair McMurrich, M.A., Professor of 



Biology in the Ontario Agricultural College 300 



A TYPOGRAPHICAL ARGUMENT IN FAVOUR OF THE EARLY SETTLEMENT OF THE 

 BRITISH ISLES BY CELTS, WHOSE LANGUAGE WAS GAELIC. By Neil MacNish, 

 B.D., LL.D 310 



ON THE OCCURRENCE IN CANADA OF TWO SPECIES OF PARASITIC MITES. By J. B. 



Tyrrell, B.A., F.G.S 332 



SOME OF THE PRESENT ASPECTS OF THE GERM-THEORY OF DISEASE. By R. Ramsav 



Wright, M.A., B. Sc, Professor in University College, Toronto 344 



CANADIAN INSTITUTE. Report of the Council for T882-83 251 



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