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AND A RECORD OF THE 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



TORONTO, UPPER tiANADA, FEBRUARY, 1855. 



CONTENTS 



JPage. 

 Address of ^he President of the Canadiiui Institute — Delivered I 



January 6th, 1855 153 . 



Observations suggested by Specimens of a Class of Conchological 

 Relics of the Bed Indian Tribes of Canada West, by Daniel 

 Wilson, LL.D., University College, Toronto — read before the • 



Canadian Institute 155 | 



On the Effect of Pressure on the Temperature of Fusion of dif- I 



ferent Substances, by Mr. Hopkins 159 | 



NpuvoUes Experiences sur le Movement de la Terre un Moyen du 



Gyroscope, by M. Foucault 189 I 



On Arctic and Antarctic Currents, and their connection with the | 



fate of Sir John Franklin, by Mr. A. G. Lindsay 160 | 



Mean Meteorological Results at Toronto, during the year 1854^ | 



read before the Canadian Institute, by J. B. Cherriman, M.A. 161 



Education in Scotland 162 



On the Cause of the Aurora Borealis, by Prof. A. de la Rive 164 



Result of the .Astronomer Royal's Recent Pendulum Experiments, 166 



The late Sir John Lockhart 1C7 



On the re-cutting of the Koh-i-Noor Diamond 167 



Surrenderor the Saugcen Peninsula 168 



Government Aid to Scientific and Literary Institutions in Upper 



and Lower Canada • 168 



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Proceedings of the Canadian Institute 169 



Mr. Bohn's Donations 169 



Literary and Historical Society of Quebec 170 



Mr. Bohn's Libraries 170 



Canadian Isinglass 170 



Remarkable Low Temperature at Isle Jesus, on the 22nd and 23rd 



December, 1854 171 



Re-publication of the 1st Vol. of the Canadian Journal 172 



Meteorological Results at Hamilton, for the year 1854 172 



Notices of Books : — 



Lives of the Queens of England 172 



The American Almanac 172 



On the Solidification of Bodies under great Pressure 172 



A New Arithmometer 173 



On the Cause of the Phenomena exhibited by the Geysers of Ice- 

 land 173 



On the Silurian Anthracite of Cavan 173 



Colonial Postage 173 



Monthly Meteorological Register for Toronto 174 



•• " '• Isle Jesus 176 



" " •' Quebec 176 



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