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PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



[1855. 



The Periodicals mentioned in the former Report haye been continued. 



The Council are desirous of acknowledging the liberality of nume- 

 rous gentlemen in Canada and elsewhere, whose contributions to the 

 Library and Museum are rapidly creating most valuable and interest- 

 ing adjuncts to the Society. The list subjoined contaios the donations 

 which have been received during the year : — 



Douatious. 



Norway and its Scenery, by T. Forrester 1 



Bechstein's Cage Birds 1 



China, Ava, andSiam, by Miss Corma 1 



DeLolme on the Constitution 1 



Egypt, Ethiopia, &c., by Lepsius 1 



Humphrey's Coin Collection , 2 



Humboldt's Travels, Vol. Ill 1 



.Introduction to History, 19th Century 1 



A. H. Armour, 

 from Mr. Bohn. 



5} 



Prof. Ckoft. 



Logan's Geological Survey, 1845-46, & 1848-49, 2 A. H. Abmouk. 



Do. do. 1846-47 



Do. do., North shore of Lake Huron, 1848... 



Reports — Sea and River Fisheries of New 



Brunswick, 1852 



Do. Standing Committee on Railroads, 1852, 



(Canada) 



Do. Sums paid and Correspondence relative to 



Railroads, 1853, do 



Geological Survey of Canada, 1851-52 ; 



Report of Special Committee on Magdalene 



Islands, &c., 1853 



Catalogue of Ancient and Modem Books 



Beckmann's History of Inventions, Vol. I 



Do. do. Vol. II 



Mathew of Westminster's Chronicles, Vol. I 



Do. do, Vol.11 



Alfred the Great, &c., by B. Thorp 



Henry of Huntingdon's Chronicles 



Humboldt's Travels, Vol. I 



Lectures on Painting, by the R. Academicians.. 



Geology of Soriptui-e, Pye Smith 



Richardson's Geology, &c 



Humboldt's Cosmos, Vol. II 



Euclid's Elements, 1651, 



Comte's Philosophy of the Sciences 



History of England and Normandy, Vol. I., 

 T. Forrester 



by 



Smith's Canada, Vols. I. and II 



Culture of the Grape in United States, by C. Cist 



Cincinnati in 1851, by do 



Plans accompanying Report on a Railway Sus- 

 pension Bridge over the St. Lawrence, near 

 Quebec 



Magnetical and Meteorological Observations 

 made at the Hon. East India Company's Ob- 

 servatory, year 1850 



Transactions of the Royal Society of Edin- 

 burgh, Vol. XX., Part II., Session 1850-51.. 



Do. Vol. XX., Part IV., Session 1852-53 



Progress of do., 1850-51, Vol. III., 68th Session, 

 from 2d December, 1850 



Do. 8d. March, 1851 



Do. Vol. IIL, 1852-53 



Contents of Vol. II., Dec, 1844 to April, 1850. 



Documentary History of New York, by Dr. 

 O'Callaghan 



Hunt's Poetry of Science 



Mantell's Geological Excursions, Isle of Wight 



Gibbon's Rome, Vol. II 



Do. Vol. Ill 



Addison's Works, by Hurd, Vol. II 



Do. Vol. Ill 



Covrper's Works, Southey, Vol. II 



Do, Vol. in 



, r Thos. Henning. 

 1 



1 



IJ 



1 



1 



1 



1 



- . A. H. -Aemoub, 

 I ' from Jlr. Bohn. 



1 

 1 



1 

 1 



1 Petek Cameron. 



) A. H. Armour, 



- j from Mr. Bohn. 



2 Thos. Maclear. 

 A. H. Armour. 



!}• 



2 R. L. O'Brien. 



) Hon. 

 ij <^' 



East India 

 Company. 



From the 

 Societies. 



A. H. Armour. 



A. H. Armour, 

 from Mr. Bohn. 



Naples under Spanish Dominion 1 "] 



Conde's History of Arabs in Spain, Vol. 1 1 



Locke's Philosophical Works, Vol. I 1 



Athenteus Lit. translated, A^ols. I., II., Ill 3 



Plato, translated by Burges, Vol. IV 1 



Catulus Fabulus 1 



Tacitus, Oxford Translation, Vol. II 1 



History of England and Normandy, Vol. II 1 



Ingulph's Chronicle 1 



Theorodet and Evagrius 1 



Mudie's British Birds, Vols. I. and II 2 



Dante, by Wright, illustrated by Flaxman 1 



Tasso, by Wiffin, 32 Plates 1 



Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, 



with Maps, VoL 23 1 



General Index to Second Ten Volumes 1 



Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, 



Nov. 1, 185.3, Vol. IX., P. 4, No. 36 1 



Do., February 1, 1854, Vol. X., P. 1, No. 37... 1 

 Statistics of the United States Census, 1850, 



1022 pages 1 



History, Condition, and Position of the Indian 

 Tribes of the United States, Parts 1, 3, and 

 4, by H. R. Schoolcraft, LL.D., illustrated... 3 

 Patent Office Report, Part 1, 1853, Mechanics. 1 

 Report of the Superintendent of the United 



States Coast Survey, 1852 ' 



The Britannia and Conway Tubular Bridges. 



E. Clark, Vols. I. audIL, 1850 



Plates to do 



Annual Report of 0. S. and H. Railway 



Narrative of Failure to Establish a MUitary 



Asylum, &c., by Major Lachlan 



Trade and Navigation of the Province of Ca- 

 nada, 1853, Parliamentary Return 1 



Geological Report of Canada, 1852-53 1 



Hayes' Book of British Birds 1 



Trade and Navigation Reports, 1850 and 1851. 2 



A. H. Aemoub, 

 from Mr. Bohn. 



From the Soci- 

 eties, per H. 



ROWSELL. 



Hon. J. Bkod- 

 head, per A. 

 H. Armour. 



?} 



R. Stephenson, 

 per Sir C. 



RONET. 



Maps. 



Biitish Provinces of North America, 1776 1 



Museum, 



Geological Specimens from Lakes Huron & Simcoe 

 Minerals and Fossils from Ireland, Isle of Man, 



and Canada 



Indian Relics 



Conch Shell from Fishing Island, Lake Huron 



Mineral resembling Coal, from the Island of Barba- 



does, and some Slinerals from a Tar Spring in 



same Island 



Ornithorhyncus from Australia 



Numerous Indian Remains — Specimens of Fossils 



and Mineralogy 



Bituminous Shale from Scotland, and two small 



Bottles containing Ashes 



Geological and Mineral Specimens from Sault Ste. 



Marie 



1 Directors. 



1 Major Lachlan. 

 Hon. W. B. Ro- 



BLNSON, M.P.P. 



Mr. Hope. 

 Hon. W. B. Ro- 

 binson, M.P.P. 



Capt. Lefroy. 



Capt. Walker. 

 T. W. Hebrick. 



Dr. RlCHARTSON 



S. Flemisg. 



Dr. Bovell. 

 M. S. Baldwin. 



Rev. G. Bell. 



Prof. Chapman. 



A. Mackintosh. 



Building Site for tile Canadian Institut«. 



Lot for Building on George Street G. W. Allan. 



The Council have to call the attention of the Institute to their tenure 

 of the present commodious rooms they now occupy, with the consent of 

 the Government. The probability of their being required for other 

 purposes, demands the early attention of their successors. As yet no 

 steps have been taken to acquire a permanent abode for the property 

 of the Institute, or for their ordinary meetings, in case of a sudden 

 removal being necessary. The Council, however, are enabled with 

 much satisfaction to state, that the subject of a building has been 

 divested of much pecuniary difficulty through the generosity of one of 

 their members. The Institute is already aware of the munificent gift 



