THE CANADIAN JOURNAL, 



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INDUSTRY, SCIENCE, AND ART; 



AND A RECORD OF THE 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE, 



TORONTO, UPPER CANADA, NOVEMBER, 1854 



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trcology of AVestei'u Canada. Xo. III. Western and Huron Geology — Meteorology 



Districts 73 Statistics 88 



On Changes in the Sea-Level effected by existing Physical Causes Ethnography 80 



during Stated Periods of Time. By Alered Tylok, F.G.S.. 76 Education 89 



.Steam Boiler Explosions — Mr Fairbairn's Experiments — Proposed Fate of Sir John Franlilin 91 



Association for their Prevention 81 Commercial Enterprise and Scientific Investigation 92 



Longitude of Kingston 82 The Canadian Steam Navigation Company's new Iron Screw Pro- 

 Expedition to Central Africa 83 poller Steam Vessel '-Canadian." 92 



Mining Statistics— Coal, Copper, &c 8S Canadian Institute— Notice to Members 9:5 



Report of the British Emigration Commissioners 83 Notice of Books <);' 



An Iron Coffer-Dum 84 Extraction of Metals by the Battery 94 



Friendly Societies 84 Consumption of Coal in the United States 94 



Average Illness among the Labouring Cla6.ses 84 On the Permanent Expansion of Cnst-Iron by Suecessivo Heatings 91 



Process of Whitening Pins and Needles made of Iron and Steel ... 84 Robinson's Patent for tho Novel Application of tho Slags of the 



Twenty-fourth Meeting of the Briti.sli .Vssociation for tlic Advfinoe- Fuse Metals Vi4 



ment of Science : - The Precious Mctiils in England 94 



Tlie President's .\ddrcs8 K.", Rosin Oil for Lubricating Machinery 94 



Notes on the Present State of Astronomy. Monthly Meteorological Register for Toronto 9J 



Memorandum by Professor Challis S.' P.. <\n. d.i. Montreal 'ir, 



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