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MUSEUM OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE— THE CANADIAN JOURNAL, etc. 



[1853 



call the attention of members to certain regulations which have 

 especial reference to the preliminary operations of the Society: — 



1 . The sessions of the Institute shall commence annually on 

 the first Saturday in December; and ordinary meetings shall be 

 held on every succeeding Saturday (omitting the Christmas holi- 

 days), until the first Saturday in April; but it shall be in the 

 power of the Council to protract the sessions if it should seem 

 necessary. Tho chair may be taken when five members are 

 present. 



2. The Annual General Meeting of the Institute shall be 

 held on the third Saturday in December, at seven o'clock in the 

 evening, to receive and deliberate upon the report of the Council 

 on the state of the Institute, and to elect the officers and members 

 of the Council for tho ensuing year, 



3. The Council shall draw up a yearly Report on the state of 

 the Institute, in which shall be given an abstract of all the "pro- 

 ceedings and of the receipts and expenses of the past year to be 

 accompanied by vouchers ; and such report shall be read at the 

 Annual General Meeting. 



4. Tho President, First and Second Vice-Presidents, Treasurer, 

 two Secretaries, and Curator and Librarian, (with six members to 

 form a Council), shall be elected annually by ballot, at tho general 

 meeting on the third Saturday in December; and if that day fall 

 upon a holiday, then upon the following Saturday. 



5. That all persons to be eligible as officers, of the Institute, 

 and members of the Council must be put in nomination at the 

 ordinary meeting immediately proceeding the annual general 

 meeting. 



6. Any member being nominated to an office and not elected 

 thereto, shall be eligible to be elected as a member of the Council. 



7. Every member voting at. the annual election, shall deliver 

 to two Scrutineers, appointed by the Chairman, a list containing 

 the names of the persons he may be desirous of having elected as 

 members of the Council for the ensuing year, specifying the 

 offices for which he proposes them to bo elected ; the Scrutineers 

 shall mark the name of every member so delivering his list, and 

 if no valid objection be made, the same shall be accepted. Voles 

 of country members for the election of officers communicated in 

 writing to the Secretaty shall be valid. 



S. Those members ot the Institute residing at a distance from 

 the citv, shall havo the power of forming themselves into Branch 

 Societies for the purpose of holding meetings, and discussing 

 scientific and other subjects;; and are to be governed I y the regu- 

 lations of the Institute, and such other By-laws hereafter to be 

 enacted by them and approved by the Oonncil. 



ISuseuni of the Canadian Institute. 



and among them are to bo found some corals, madrepores, tubi- 

 pores, and shells of great beauty, and in good state of preservation. 

 Mr. Bell, in his communication to the Librarian and Curator of 

 the Institute, states that, " the corniferous fossils have been found 

 in various localities in the townships of Oneida, Walpolc, Wood- 

 house and Townsend, and a few rolled species of stone in Wind- 

 ham and Charlotteville; but, as nearly al are characteristic, 

 there is no douht of their belonging to the same formation. I 

 have heard a doubt expressed as to the Loptena Depressa being 

 found higher than the Niagara Limestone*; but about the 

 specimens sent there can be tio doubt, as they were all taken by 

 myself from the rock in silu, part at Dover, and part five miles 

 north of that place. I send also an Indian stone-axe and chisel, 

 with a few arrow-heads and a singular perforated stone (probably 

 a bead) from Charlotteville; also, some arrow-heads and frag- 

 ments of pottery from Windham. The last are not good sam- 

 ples, but having some room to spare in the box, I put in a few 

 pieces of such as I had at the time, expecting hereafter to get 

 some better specimens." 



Dr. Wilson, of Perth, has contributed an important addition 

 to the Museum in the form of a fine selection of minerals, some 

 being peculiar to Canada as far as is yet known of their distribu- 

 tion. Dr. Wilson's donation embraces twenty species, to many 

 of which duplicates and triplicates are attached. This is an im- 

 portant item in the formation of a museum, as it permits ex- 

 changes to be made for unrepresented specimens. 



We notice with particular pleasure these valuable contributions 

 of Mr. Bell and Dr. Wilson; they will serve to attract attention 

 to the magnificent science of geology, one which is second only 

 to astronomy in the grandeur of its speculations and the imposing 

 aspect of its present developments, and one wdrich may vie with 

 astronomy in its bearings upon the progress of the arts and the 

 happiness of mankind. 



* Lrprcena Depressa, known also by 1 he names Strophomena. Depressa, 

 JProducttts Depressus ; is an exceedingly beaulilul shell, slrongly marked by 

 undulations, crossed by slr;ae. We have (bund this shell at Woodstock in 

 the Valley ot' the Thames.. It is to bo met will) in the Clinton Group, and 

 very abundantly in the Niagara Group, and certainly as high as the com- 

 mencement ol the Hauilkon Group. — (Eld. Can.Jorcr.) 



We h$ve recently had the pleasure of examining a very hand- 

 some collection of fossils and Indian remains presented to the 

 Museum of the Canadian Institute by George Bell, Esq., of 

 Simcfie, Tho specimens number over one hundred and fifty, 



The Canadian Journal. 



We direct the attention of subscribers to the advertisement of 

 A. H. Armour & Co., which appears on the cover of the present 

 number. The October number was delayed in its publication 

 some days longer than might reasonably be attributed to the 

 supplement which accompanied it. This was occasioned by the 

 great inconvenience and delay with which the removal of Mr. 

 Scobie's Printing Establishment to more commodious buildings 

 was necessarily attended. 



We have also to call the attention of Members of the Institute 

 to the Circular which appears on the fourth page of the cover. 

 It is earnestly hoped that the attendance of Members at the 

 Annual General Meeting, on December 17th, will fully establish 

 the expectations which the last annual conversazione orignated. 



