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THE CANADIAN JOURNAL, 



A REPERTORY OF 



INDUSTRYf SCIENCE, AND ART; 



AND A RECORD OF THE 



PROCEEDINGS OF. THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



TORONTO, UPPER CANADA, OCTOBER, 1854 



CONTENTS: 



PAGE i PAGE 



Geology of Western Canada.— No. II. From the Report of xhe Kev. W. Wheweli., D.D. Master of Trinity College, 



Alex. Murray Esq., Assistant Provincial Geologist, Cambridge, " On the Material Helps of Education." 65 



dated Montreal, January 1849.... 49 | '^ 



Artificial Breeding of Fish 65 



fhUfttii'f - 



-RICAN ASSOC 

 TH£ ADVANl 



Of soienct 



Biographical Notice of Sir Roderick Murchison 52 



Important Improvement in the Manufacture of Iron and other 



Ascent of Mont Blanc by a Lady 66 



Metals by the Introduction of a Liquid Purifier 55 Products of Coal— Paraffine 66 



New Zealand Flax 55 British Exports for 1853 67 



Incrustation in Boilers 56 Toronto Harbour 68 



Lighting by Electricity 56 Miscellanea 68 



On Changes of the Sea-Level effected by existing Physical ^ Storm in India "0 



Causes during stated periods of time. By Alfred 



TvLOR, F.G.S \ 57 Submarine Telegraph without Wires D 



New York Industrial Exhibition 60 Stability of Iron Ships 70 



Statistics of Fibrous Materials 63 A New Substitute for the Potato 70 



CoUosal Monument to Shakspere 64 ^^'^tesian AVoll "0 



On Modern Discoveries by the Microscope. By T. Rymer Toronto Meteorological Table "I 



Jones, F.R.S., Professor of Comparative Anatomy, King's • 



College, London 64 : Montreal '• 



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