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CANADIAN INSTITUTE— MINUTES OF COUNCIL. 



[1854. 



Canadian Institute* 



EXTRACTS FROM THE MINUTES OF COUNCIL, JUNE 3kd, 1854. 



G. W. Allan, Esq., Secretary of the Canadian Institute, offered a 

 piece of ground on George Street, 50 feet frontage by 130 in depth, 

 as a site for a building for tlie purposes of the Institute. 



Mr. Allan's liberal offer was cordially accepted by the Council, and 

 the thanks of the Institute were ordered to be given to that gentle- 

 man. 



A donation from the Rev. G. Bell, of Simcoc, was announced. Mr. 

 Bell's donation consisted of a large number of Indian Remains and 

 Geological Specimens. 



The thanks of the Institute were ordered to be transmitted to the 

 Rev. Mr._ Bell, for his valuable donations. 



The following gentlemen were proposed Members of the Institute: — ■ 



Mr. Small, CoUingwood Harbour. 



Rev. Professor J. S.mith, Kingston. 



Rev. Professor J. Williamson,... Kingston. 

 Mr. H. N. CouRTLANDT Simeoe. 



" Resolved --That the best thanks of the Council be tendered to Mr. 

 Armour for his valuable donation, and for his consiant and active zeal 

 in promoting tlie interests of the Institute." 



" Resolved, — That the thanks of the Council be tendered to the gen- 

 tlemen mentioned by Mr. Armour as having so liberally assisted in 

 obtaining this valuable addition to the Library." 



COUNCIL MEETING, JULY 21st, 1854. 

 The following donations were announced by the Vice President . — 

 " The Bombay Magnetical and Meteorological Observations," pre- 

 sented by the Hon. East India Company. 



A specimen of the Ornithorhyncus, from Australia, presented by 

 Mr. Maurice Baldwin, of Toronto. 



Twenty-four volumes of Bohn's Scientific, Staudai-d, Antiquarian, 

 Classical, and Illustrated Library, presented by H. G. Bohn, Esq., 

 London, through A. H. Armour, Esq., Toronto. 



The Census of the United States, and the Documentary History of 

 the State of New York, presented by A. H. Armour, Esq. 



The thanks of the Council were ordered to be transmitted to the 

 Honourable East India Company, Mr. Maurice Baldwin, Mr. Bohn, 

 and Mr. Armour, for their respective donations. 



Mr. Richard Denison, of the township of York, and Jlr. George 

 AVilson, of the City of New York, United States, were proposed mem- 

 bers of the Institute. 



COUNCIL MEETING, AUGUST 23rd, 1854. 

 The following gentlemen were proposed members : — 



Mr. J. U. Thomson Toronto. 



Mr. D. B. Reid " 



Mr. D. 0. French " 



" Resolved,— 1ha.t the thanks of the Council be transmitted to 

 Lieutenant A. Noble, R.A., for his valuable Monthly tables of the 

 Meteorology of Quebec, communicated by him to the Canadian Journal, 

 and that the Council desire to express their regret at the suspension of 

 the Quebec table, on account of the removal of Lieutenant Noble to 

 Montreal. 



" Resolved, — That the thanks of the Council be transmitted to Dr, 

 Smallwood, St. Martin, Isle Jesus, and to Professor Cherriman, Direc- 

 tor of the Provincial Magnetic Observatory, for the valuable monthly 

 Meteorological tables of Isle Jesus and Toronto. ' 



Robert Steplicnson^ MaP. 



The Library of the Canadian Institute has recently been eirriched 

 by contributions from various sources. Appropriate acknowledg- 

 ments of this encouraging liberality — which is rapidly creating a per- 

 manent and most valuable adjunct to the Institute — have been duly 

 inserted in the extracts from the Minutes of Council. It is with great 

 pleasure that we have to anuotmce in addition to recent mptributions 

 already noticed, a most valuable donation from the distinguished 

 engineer, Robert Stephenson, Esq., M.P. 



Mr. Stephenson's donation consists of the celebrated work on " The 

 Britannia and Conway Tubular Bridges, with general inquiries on 

 Beams and on the Properties of Materials used in construction, by 

 Edwin Clark, resident Engineer. Published with the sanction, and 

 under the supervision, of Robert Stephenson." 



A magnificent folio volume of plates, illustrating the Britannia and 

 Conway Tubular Bridges. 



COUNCIL MEETING, AUGUST 9th, 1854. 



The following Donation from A. H. Armour, Esq., Toronto, was 

 announced : — 



Schoolcraft's History, Condition and Prospects of the Indian Tribes; 

 Parts First, Third, and Fourth, 



Report of the Superintendent of the United States Coast Survey for 

 the year 1852. 



Report of the Commissioners of Patents for the year 1853 ; Part 1., 

 Arts and Manufactures. 



Mr. Arnjour's donation was accompanied by a letter, informing the 

 Council that he was indebted to the liberality of the Hon. G. \V. 

 Manypenny, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, the Hon. J. M. Brodhead, 

 Washington, and Ellicott Evans, Esq., Buffalo, for the above-mentioned 

 valuable works. 



The following resolutions were ordered to be transmitted to Mr. 

 Armour: — ■ 



TUe Q,uebec Meteorological Table. 



The Meteorological Table for Quebec, which has been Idndly fur- 

 nished to this Journal for several months past by Lieutenant A. Noble, 

 R.A., will no longer appear in its usual place. It is with great regret 

 that we make this annormcement, as we conceive that the absence of so 

 important a link in the chain of Meteorological observation, which has 

 hitherto been so well sustained, will be seriously felt by all interested 

 in this department of Science. The occasion of the suspension of the 

 Quebec observations is the removal of Lieutenant Noble to Montreal. 

 The Council of the Institute have expressed their sense of Lieutenant 

 Noble's active exertions in the cause of Canadian Meteorology, by 

 transmitting to him their thanks for his monthly contribution to this 

 journal. A copy of this resolution, as well as of one transmitted to 

 Dr. Smallwood, of St. Martin, Isle Jesus, and Professor Cherriman, 

 Toronto, will be found in the Extracts of the Minutes of Council. 



