4 PROCEEDINGS. 



remarks of different members, however, only tended to prove that the 

 Salmonidce of the Province required more attention at the hands of ichthy- 

 ologists. 



The President, on behalf of the members, thanked the Lord Bishop of 

 Newfoundland, Dr. Field, (who was present as a visitor,) for his kindness in 

 forwarding a specimen of the Great Auk (Alca impenms,) from Newfound- 

 land, which had enabled them to become acquainted with the anatomy of a 

 bird which was now extinct. 



His Lordship in reply stated that he was glad to find that the specimen 

 in question had proved interesting to the members. It had been taken with 

 two others from a guano bed on one of the Funk Islands, lying off the N. E. 

 coast of Newfoundland, and was by far the most jjerfect of the three. He 

 should always be happj to render any assistance in his power to further the 

 object of the Institute, in gaining a knowledge of the Natural History of 

 Newfoundland. 



Ordinary Meeting, Jan. 8, 1S66. 

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



The Rev. John Morton, Bridgewater, was elected an Associate member 

 at the previous Council Meeting. 



Professor Jas. DeMill, Dalhousie College, and J. Rutherford, were 

 elected members at the previous Council Meeting. 



The Rev. John Ambrose read a paper entitled, " Observations on the 

 Fishes and Fishing Grounds of St. Margaret's Bay." {See Transactions.) 



In connection with the observations of Mr. Ambrose, Capt. Hardy men- 

 tioned a curious circumstance which occurred last summer. A friend who 

 was fishing in the North West Arm, hooked a hake (Merlucius vidgaris), and 

 bringing it to the surface it was gaffed by a companion. The gaff, however, 

 broke off at the socket, and the fish made its escape with the instrument 

 sticking in it. After a short time they commenced fishing again, and hooked 

 and gaffed a second time securely, the very same hake with the old gaff fast 

 in its back. 



The President read some " Notes on Hurricanes and Revolving Oales of the 

 North Atlantic " hy J. S. HuRDIs, of Southampton, England. {See Appendix.) 



Capt. W. T. TowNSEND stated his recollections of the Bermuda Hurricane 

 of 1839, he having been on board a vessel off the coast of Newfoundland at 

 the time when the gale reached that latitude. He described the unusual 

 violence which characterized it, and the quarter from which it came, which 

 differed from that of more southern points on its route. 



Mr. R. Morrow exhibited some very curious rounded masses of vege- 

 table origin, which he had procured from the shores of a lake in the forest 

 some distance to the eastward of Halifax, and which had puzzled the minds of 

 several naturalists, as to their method of formation. 



Mr. C. Fairbanks, by request, laid upon the table a fine series of celts, 

 spear and arrow heads, and several weapons and ornaments which he had 

 procured in different parts of the colony. 



