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PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



[1854. 



INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER. 



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

 joined extracts from the Kegulations 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 admis- 

 sion, 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 be transacted. 



6. 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. 

 ^. At the ordinary meetings of the Institute, every Saturday evening, 

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

 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 be introduced to the meeting. 



3. Names of candidates for admission to be announced. 



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



^. 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 ballotted for. A ballot shall 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 indi- 

 vidually, and any candidate shall be rejected against whom ap- 

 pear a number of black balls equal to one-fourth of the number 

 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 shall 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, re- 

 questing 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. 



COUNCIL MEETING, 

 Thursday, 9th November, 1854. 



DONATIONS. 



Annales des Mines ou Recueil de M^moires sur I'exploration des 

 Mines et sur les sciences et les arts qui s'y rapportent ; r^digees par 

 les eng^nieurs des mines, et publifees sous I'autorisation du ministre 

 des travaux publiques. 1st and 2nd livraison de 1854, presented by 

 M. C. de Boilleau. 



Journal of the Geographical Society, with Maps, Vol. 23. 



General Index to the second ten volumes of the Journal of the Geo- 

 graphical Society. 



Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, Vol. IX., Part 1, 1853. 



Trade and Navigation Reports for the Province of Canada, by the 

 Hon. W. B. Robinson. 



Various Parliamentary documents, by the Hon. W. B. Robinson. 



Box of mineral specimens from Sault Ste. Marie, by Mr. A, Mcintosh 

 per Mr. S. Spreull. 



LITERARY AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF 

 QUEBEC. 



INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER. 



OFFICERS FOR 1854. 

 13rrsil]cnt : 

 G. B. FAIKBAULT. 

 Firt-lSrcsitlcntS— E. A. MEREDITH, L.L.B.; Liedt. A. NOBLE, R.A.; LlECT. E. D. 



ASHE, R.N., F.R.A,S.; G. T. KINGSTON. 

 Bccorliinci Srcrrtara— HENRY E. STEELE. 



Cqrrtsponliincj Scctctarn— LncT. H. G. SAVAGE, R.E. 

 Counril Sccrctirs— NOEL H. BOWEN. 



Curator of iSuscura— ROBERT H. RUSSELL, M.D. 

 Curator of apparatus— WILLIAM BONNING. 



Crrasurcr— G. T. CAUY. 

 lidrarian— E. T. FLETCHER. 



