THE CANADIAN JOURNAL, 



A REPERTORY OF 



INDU8T 



ei'BNGB, AND 



AND A RECORD OF THE 



PROCEEDINGS OE THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



TORONTO, UPPER CANADA, OCTOBIR, 1853. 



C ON TEN T S 



Meeting of the British Association for the advancement of 



Science --. -- 49 



The President's Address 48 



Progress of Astronomy 49 



Terrestrial Magnetism 51 



Theories of Heat 51 



Meteorology 52 



Geology 53 



Object of the British Association 56 



The Narcotics we indulge in 5 ' 



Notes of a Short Tour from Montreal to Portland and the 



White Mountains 58 



Variations in the level of the Lakes ■ 01 



Robert Stephenson, M. P 63 



Second Report of the Special Committee of the Library and 

 Historical Society of Quebec, appointed to Report on 



M. Foucault's Pendulum Experiment . . 64 



- Library of the Canadian Institute 65 



Twenty-third Meeting of the British Association for the 



advancement of Science 60 



Report on Luminous Meteors, by Rev. Prof. Powell — ... 66. 

 On the Composition and figuring of the Specula for Reflecting 



Telescopes, by Mr. Sollitt . 67 



On the Surface temperature and Great Currents of the North 



Atlantic and Northern Ocean, by the Rev. Dr. 



Seoresb}' 



| On Dynamical Sequences in Kosmos, by W. J. M. Waterson 

 On the Chemical action of the Solar Radiations, by Mr. R. 



Hunt - 



Introductory Address on General Improvements in Mechani- 

 cal Science during the past year, by W. Fairbairn.. 

 Report of the Committee appointed in 1852 to prepare a 

 Memorial to the Hon. E. I. Comp, on the means of 

 cooling air in tropical Climates, by W.J. M. Rankino 



Meteorological table for Toronto — 



Notice of the Storm of August 1-4 



Meteorological table for Isle Jesus. 



Winter phenomena of the St. Lawrence, by W. E. Logan, 



- E.G. S. 



Mi'. Good's Locomotive ' Toronto,' with plate 



Naturalist's Calendar for August, September, and October, 



by Win. Couper, Toronto ..... 



Extract from the Report of T. C. Kcefer, C. E., on the 



Railway Bridge over the St. Lawrence , 



Mechanic's Institute New Hall 



Notices of Books. — 



Report of the Geology of Wisconsin, Iowa, and 

 Minnesota, by David Dale Owen, U, ~ 



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