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cal point of view, it presents some of the most remarkable fea- 

 tures known in the science of mining, and has not unfrequently 

 baffled all the known theory and practice of the day ; and from 

 this reason mainly, whilst other mines have started into existence 

 at a much more reeent period, and have been profitably worked 

 to a great depth, this mine has only yet reached to about 110 fa- 

 thoms. The mine during the last sixty years has not been sunk 

 one single fathom. 



INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER. 



First Ordinary Meeting, December 3rd, 1853. 



The following gentlemen were proposed members of the Insti- 

 tute: — 



Dr. W. Craigie, _ . Hamilton. 



J. H. Hagarty, Q. C, Toronto. 



C. J. Philbrick, M. R. C. S., " 



C. E. Thomson, ) 



J. J. Bogert, > Junior Members Toronto. 



S. E. Rykert, ) 



KRothwell, " 



Professor W. Hincks, " 



" E. Chapman, " 



" D. Wilson, " 



E. G, O'Brien, Esq.. and S. Spreule, were appointed to audit 

 the accounts of the past year. 



The Annual Report was read by the Secretary. The follow- 

 ing certificate, having reference to the proposal of honorary 

 members, was presented and read : — 



To the Secretary of the Canadian Institute : — 



We certify that the following persons — Capt. J. H. Lefroy, 

 R.A., F.R.S.; W. Logan, F.R.S., and G.S., Provincial Geologist; 

 Col. E.Sabine, R.A., F.R.S.; Robert Stephenson, M.P.— are 

 eminent for their attainments in Science, and do recommend the 

 same for election as Honorary Members of this Society. 



J. B. Cheeriman, 

 Henry Croft, 

 F. W. Cumberland. 

 The following gentlemen having been provisionally elected by 



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the Council during the recess, they were duly ballotted for and 

 their election confirmed : — 



The Hon. Francis Hincks, Life Member,. . Quebec. 



Rev. B. Cronyn London. 



E. Thompson, Toronto. 



A. P. Salter, D.P.L.S., Chatham Chatham. 



E. R. Jones, " 



Hon. P. B. de Blaquiere, _. « 



T. G. Gregory, Windsor. 



Rev. R. Whit well, Philipsburg. 



J. E. Pell, Toronto. 



W. McCleary, London, 



Rev. W. Bleasdale Trenton. 



Col. K. Cameron, _ - Beaverton. 



J. R, Burke,... Stanfold, C.E. 



Dr. Thomas Macklem, Chippawa. 



C. J. McGregor, * 



E. M. Crombie, J- Junior Members, Toronto. 



S. W. Hallam, 



Second Ordinary Meeting.— December lOih. 



The following gentlemen -were proposed members of the 

 Institute : — 



Thos. C. Street, Niagara Falls, 



Rev. Dr. Willis, . Toronto. 



Robert Ferrie, Doon. 



James Stephenson, Jr., Hamilton. 



Peter Cameron Toronto. 



William Henry Purdy, " 



Donald McDonald, " 



Sam'l Street Machlem, ) T , T , „, 



S. D. Mayer, } Jlm " Members. Toronto. 



The following volumes of Bohn's Illustrated, Scientific, Stand- 

 ard and Antiquarian Library, were then presented to the Institute 

 on behalf of H. G. Bohn, Esq., London, by A. H. Armour, Esq., 

 Toronto :— 



The Politics and Economics of Aristotle, translated, with Botes, 

 original and selected, and Analyses, by Edward Walford, M.A., 

 with Introductory Essay and a Life of Aristotle, by Dr. Gillies. 



The Organon ; or, Logical Treatises of Aristotle, with the Introduction 

 of Porphyry, literally translated, with Notes, Analysis, <fcc, by 

 Octavius Freire Owen, M.A.;.2 vols. 



The Comedies of Aristophanes ; a new and literal translation from the 

 revised test of Dindorf. with Notes and extracts from the best 

 Metrical Versions, by William James Hickie, St. John's College, 

 Cambridge ; 2 vols. 



The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, by Diogenes Laertius, 

 literally translated by C. D. Tonge, B.A. 



The Comedies of Terence, and Fables of Phasdrus, literally translated 

 into English Prose, with Notes, by Henry Thomas Riley, B.A. ; 

 to which is added a Metrical Translation of Phaedrus, by Christo- 

 pher Smart, A.M. 



The Life of Alfred the Great, translated from the German of Dr. R. 

 Paub ; to which is appended Alfred's Anglo-Saxon Version of 

 Crosius, with a literal English Translation, and an Anglo-Saxon 

 Alphabet and Glossary, by B. Thorpe, Esq., M.R.A.S., Munich. 



The Annals of Roger de Hoveden, comprising the History of England, 

 and of other countries of Europe, from A.D. 732 to A.D. 1201, 

 translated from the Latin with Notes and Illustrations, by H. T. 

 Riley, B.A. 



The Chronicle of Henry of Huntingdon, comprising the History of 

 England, from the invasion of Julius Caesar to the accession of 

 Henry II. ; also, the Acts of Stephen, King of England and Duke 

 of Normandy ; translated by Thomas Forester, A.M. 



