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THE ROYAL SOCIETY AND THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



[1854, 



The Paper was illustrated by a geological map of a portion 

 of Upper Canada, and with a section of the country between 

 Lakes Huron and Erie. It is the intention of the Council to 

 publish. Mr. Logan's valuable Paper, together with the accom- 

 panying Map and Section. 



The thanks of the Institute were ordered to be presented to 

 Mr. Looan for his important Paper, and the valuable Maps 

 which accompanied it 



Tlic Royal Society and tlic Canadian Institute. 



We have much pleasure in calling the attention of the mem- 

 bers of the Canadian Institute to the following Minutes of the 

 Council of the Royal Society. The advantage and importance 

 of receiving early impressions of the proceedings of the most 

 distinguished Scientific Society in the British Empire, and 

 perhaps in the world, cannot be too highly estimated. 



Read the following letter from Captain Lefroy, addressed to- 

 the Secretary; 



« "Woolwich, October 27, 1853. 



" Sir, — I have the bonour to request that you will lay before 

 the Council of the Royal Society, an application which I am 

 authorised to make on behalf of the Canadian Institute^ of 

 Toronto, U.C. for the privilege of receiving the Philosophical 

 Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society. 



"I beg to state that the Canadian Institute is a regularly in- 

 corporated Scientific Society, having a Royal Charter. A 

 monthly publication called the Canadian Journal emanates from 

 it, and although of very modest pretensions and still in its in- 

 fancy, the Society has met with very encouraging success. It 

 numbers over 300 members, distributed over every _ part of 

 Upper and Lower Canada It would greatly gratify its mem- 

 bers, and add to their claims to the public support, were it to 

 be honoured with this proof of the sympathy and encouragement 

 of the Royal Society. Perhaps I may be permitted to remark, 

 that while five copies are distributed in the United States, no 

 Institution in British America appears, by the printed list, to be 

 so honoured ; and I have- reason to believe that only one Public 

 Library (that of the Legislature at Quebec) contains the work. 



" In thus applying on oehalf of a Society in which I am per- 

 sonally interested, I am desirous at the same time of submitting 

 for consideration a larger question ; namely, whether it may not 

 be made a rule to supply single copies of the Philosophical 

 Transactions, at a cost only covering paper, presswork, and bind- 

 ing, to all regularly incorporated Scientific or Literary Societies 

 in the British Colonies that may conform to certain necessary 

 conditions. Having passed the" last thirteen years principally 

 in the Colonies, I may be permitted to state, that in my bumble 

 opinion, everything which can strengthen their moral ties to the 

 mother country is worthy the attention of all who value that 

 connection. A measure of this comprehensive favour and libe- 

 rality would be received with a grateful feeling by the most 

 educated and enlightened classes of Colonial Society ; while 

 its probable effect, if adopted generally by the great Societies, 

 would be invaluable. The number of copies that might be 

 claimed under such a rule would not, I think, exceed twenty at 

 present, and I cannot but submit the measure, with much re- 

 spect, as one it would be worthy of the Royal Society to adopt. 

 " I have the honour to be, Sir, 



" Your most obedient Servant, 

 " The Secretary, <&c. dx. &c, •' J. H. LEFROY, 



Boy al Society:' " Captain R. A. F.B.S." 



Resolved, — That Captain Lefroy be referred to the Officers 

 of the Society to report on to the Council. 



REPORT. 



Witli reference to the Minutes of Council of the 24th Novem- 

 ber, containing a letter from Captain Lefroy, the Officers recom- 

 mend that the Canadian Institute of Toronto should be placed 

 upon the List of Institutions to which the Proceedings of the 

 Royal Society should be presented, and that the Sheets of the 

 Proceeding's as they are printed be sent by post to an Agent in 

 London, who may be appointed by the Canadian Institute to 

 receive them. 



If, further, the Canadian Institute be desirous to be supplied 

 with the Philosophical Transactions at a low rate of purchase, 

 the Officers recommend that advantage be taken of the privi- 

 lege possessed by the Fellows of the Society of purchasing the 

 volumes five years after then- publication for one third of the 

 cost price. 



Resolved. — That tbe above recommendation be adopted. 



Tlic Canadian Journal. 



The present number of The Canadian Journal is published 

 by Thomas Maclear & Co., the successors to the Book and Sta- 

 tionery business of the late Hugh Scobie, Esq. We are assured 

 that whatever defects may be observed in the typographical 

 execution of this number, they will be remedied as soon as a 

 fresh supply of type arrives from the manufacturers. The una- 

 voidable derangement in the establishment of the Lite Publisher, 

 durino- tbe long illness which preceded his decease, and the 

 subsequent changes which occurred in the various departments 

 of business over which he presided, will, we believe, satisfac- 

 torily account for, and excuse, the defects occasionally evident 

 in tbe mechanical execution of some late numbers. Arrange- 

 ments are now being made to publish the Journal on tbe 1st 

 instead of the 15th of the month, as heretofore. 



Want of space prevents the insertion of descriptions of tbe 

 Great Western, and the Buffalo, Brantford and Goderich Rail- 

 ways, which are now in operation ; the former throughout its 

 entire length from the Niagara River to Detroit: tbe latter from 

 the Niagara River to Brantford. Tbe same cause excludes for 

 the present, tbe Prize List of the Canadian department at the 

 New York Exhibition of the Industry of all Nations* These 

 omissions will be supplied in the March number. 



Notices of Sooks* 



Elementary Chemistry, by G. Foimes, F.E.S. Edited by E. Bi'idges, 

 M.D. Lea § Blanchard, Philadelphia. 



There has scarcely ever appeared a Manual of any Science, that has 

 acquired so high a reputation as " Fowne's Chemistry for Students." 

 Appearing after the later editions of Turner's Elements, and the earlier 

 ones of Graham & Kane, Mr. Fowne's work, the third edition of which 

 was finished only a few days before his decease, has pretty universally 

 taken the place "of those works in England, and considering the very 

 moderate price of the present American edition, it is sure to do so in 

 this country. 



