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His Excellency in reply said it would give him great pleasure to become 

 the Patron of an Institution that was doing so much good in the Province, and 

 that he would endeavour to further its objects as far as lay in his power. 



Ordinary Meeting, Dec. 4, 1866. 

 J. M. Jones, President, in the Chair. 



RiGBY Wason, Esq., 16th Regt., and Lieut. Anderson, Royal Artillery, 

 were elected members at the previous Council Meeting. 



The Secretary z-ead a paper by Lieut. Col. R. B. Sinclair, A.G.M. 

 " On Pisciculture," (See Transactions.) 



The President read a paper by Mr. Elias Marett, Associate Member, 

 of St. John's, Newfoundland, " On Bone and other Implements found in a Cairn 

 of stones which covered the remains of a BceothicTc or Red Indian, on an island 

 of the Lower Burgeo group, Newfoundland." (See Appendix.) 



The paper was illustrated by carefully drawn yacsmzYes of the relics, from 

 which it appeared that the aborigines who possessed them must have had some 

 knowledge of the christian religion, or of its observance, and also of modern 

 weapons of warfare, for on some of the implements were depicted rude crosses 

 and cutlasses. 



From the remarks made by several members it appeared that the Red or 

 Copper Indians of Newfoundland, were sometimes met with as late as the 

 year 1819. On March 5th, of that year, a Mr. Peyton, who carried on con- 

 siderable salmon fisheries at the north of the island, having for some years 

 been greatly annoyed and having suflfered extensive injury at the hands of 

 these natives, determined to go into the interior to have a meeting with the 

 tribe, to endeavour to commence their civilization ; but the expedition ended 

 disastrously, for one of the Indians, at the first meeting having seized Mr. 

 Peyton's father with the intention of killing him, Msas shot, and the rest ran 

 away, with the exception of a woman who was brought back to St. John's, 

 and became civilized, but her death occurred soon after on Jan. 8, 1820. In 

 the spring of 1823, a fur hunter and his companions fell in with an Indian 

 man and an old woman. The former fled, but the other approached and 

 joined the party, whom she led to a place where her two daughters were. One 

 was about 20, the other 18 years of age. The women were brought to St. 

 John's, but the daughters being attacked with consumptive symptoms, were 

 hurried back into the interior. The mother lived for some years at St. John's, 

 dying at last of consumption. Nothing appeared to have been heard of this 

 singular race from that date. 



J. B. Gilpin, M. D., Vice President, read a paper on Salmo Oloverii, 

 called by the country people Grayling. (See Transactions.) 



An excellent coloured drawing of the fish accompanied the paper, and 

 sketches of other members of the Salmonidce were also exhibited. 



In the conversation which ensued, it was stated that an eminent authority 

 had given as his opinion that the Nova Scotian S.fontinalis was a char. Dr. 

 Gilpin believed that fontinalis went down to the sea and returned. The 



