1854.] 



TRAJS^SACTIONS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



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Fitted with a pair of direct-acting engines of ."OO-liorse (nominal) 

 power ; diameter of cj'liuders, 62 inclies ; lengtli of stroke, 3 feet 6 

 inches. Screiv-propeller, diameter, 16 feet ; length on axis, 5 feet 8 

 inches: pitch, 25 feet; two blades. Two tubular boilers, tired at both 

 ends, having two funnels. Length of boilers, 18 feet 10 inches ; 

 breadth, 9 feet 9 inches; depth, 14 feet 3 inches. Twelve furnaces, 

 six in each boiler, three at each end ; length, 6 feet 6 inches ; breadth, 

 2 feet 7 inches ; 732 lubes, or 3G6 in each boiler, or 183 at each end ; 

 diameter 3]- inches ; length, 6 feet 6 inches. Funnels, diameter, i ft. 

 10 inches, and 48 feet long ; intended steam pressure, 14 lbs. Frames 

 of hull, 6X3X1 "id i inches, spaced 12 inches apart ; 19 strakes 

 of plates, tapering from 1 to 7-16ths of an inch in thickness: eight 

 bulkheads. 



For the Liverpool, Quebec, and Montreal line. 



DESCRIPTION. 



A shield figure-head ; no galleries ; elliptical sterned and clinch- 

 built vessel ; throe masts ; barque rigged ; standing bowsprit ; three 

 decks (tlush) ; clipper-bow. — Artisan. 



INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER. 



The attention of members of the Institute is requested to the sub- 

 joined extracts from the Regulations and By-Laws : — • 



1. The sessions of the Institute shall commence annually on the first 

 Saturday in December; and ordinary meetings shall be held on every 

 succeeding Saturday (omitting the Christmas holidays), until the first 

 Saturday in April ; but it shall be in the power of the Council to pro- 

 tract the sessions if it should seem necessary. The chair may be taken 

 when five members are present. 



2. The chair shall be taken by the officer or member entitled to the 

 same ; and the business of the evening commence at eight o'clock pre- 

 cisely, and be conducted in the order prescribed in the by-laws. 



3. Every member shall have the privilege of introducing two visitors 

 to be present at the public business of the Institute by ticket of ad- 

 mission, on which the name and address of each visitor must be written. 



4. The annual general meeting of the Institute shall be held on the 

 third Saturday in December, at seven o'clock in the evening, to receive 

 and deliberate on the report of the Council on the state of the Institute, 

 and to elect the officers and members of the Council for the ensuing year. 



5. The Council may, at any time, call a special general meeting of 

 the Institute for a specific purpose, giving to city members six days' 

 notice ; and they are at all times bound to do so, on the written requi- 

 sition of five members, which shall specify the nature of the business 

 to bo transacted. 



C. Those members of the Institute residing at a distance from the 

 city, shall have the power of forming themselves into Branch Societies, 



for the purpose of holding meetings, and discussing scientific and other 

 subjects ; and are to be governed by the regulations of the Institute, 

 and such other By-laws hereafter to be enacted by them and approved 

 by the Council. 



BY-LAWS. 

 I. At the ordinary meetings of the Institute, every Saturday even- 

 ing, the following order of business shall be attended to, as closely as 

 circumstances will admit : — 



1. The Minutes of the previous meeting to be read and confirmed, 

 and signed by the Chairman ; and no entry shall be considered 

 valid until this be complete. 



2. New members present to bo introduced to the meeting. 



3. Names of candidates for admission to be announced. 



4. Business arising out of the Minutes to be entered on. 



5. Communications received since the last meeting to be announced, 

 and read if required. 



6. Donations received and acknowledged. 



7. Communications from the Council to be brought forward. 



8. Candidates to be balloted for. A ballot sh.all be taken for the 

 entire body of candidates proposed for admission ; if one or more 

 black balls appear, the ballot shall be taken for each individually, 

 and any candidate shall be rejected against whom appear a number 

 of black balls equal to one-fourthofthenumber of members voting. 



9. Papers on the lists to be read. 



II. Notices of questions to be brought forward for discussion, must 

 be given at least one week before the same shall be brought forward ; 

 and it sh.iU be competent for the Council, or for any member to propose 

 a subject for discussion. 



III. A circular letter may be sent to all the country members, at the 

 commencement of each session, with a list of questions that are ap- 

 pointed for discussion at the ordinary meetings of the Institute, request- 

 ing communications from the members on them, or on any other subject 

 connected with the objects of the Institute. 



IV. A similar letter may also be transmitted about the middle of the 

 session, with the addition of any new questions that may have been 

 brought forward and accepted ; and at the end of the session, a list of 

 questions shall also be sent to all the members, in order to collect in- 

 formation during the recess. Each letter shall contain a list of the 

 written communications that have been made to the Institute. 



Notice."! of Books. 



Geological Survey of Canada — Report of Progress forthcj-ear 1852- 

 53. Printed by order of the Legislative Assembly. 



The large amount of space occupied by the reports of the proceedinn-s 

 of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, prevents us 

 from giving an abstract of Messrs. Logan, Murray, and Hunt's valu- 

 able reports on the Geological SuiTey of Canada for the year 1852-53. 

 The December number of this Journal wiU coutain copious extracts 

 from these important documents. 



The Principal Forms of the Skeleton and of the Teeth. By Professor 

 R. Owen, F.R.S., &c. Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea, 1854, oc. 

 pp. 329. 



The Principles of Animal and A'egetablo Physiology; a Popular 

 Treatise ou the Functions and Phenomena of Organic Life. To which 

 is prefixed a General "\^icw of the Great Departments of Human Know- 

 ledge. By J. Stevenson Bushn.".n, M.D. Philadelphia : BlanchnrJ 

 and Lea, 1854, oc, pp. 233, 



For the reason given above, a detailed notice of these works is Re- 

 ferred until the r.ext issue of this Journal. 



