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THE CANADIAN JOURNAL 



A REPERTORY OF 



INDUSTRY, SCIENCE-, AND ART 



AND A RECORD OF THE 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



TORONTO, UPPER CANADA, APRIL, 1855. 



CONTENTS: 



Passing Visits to the Rice Lake, Humber River, Grenadier's Pond 

 and the Island. Made by Dr. Goadby, and J. Bovell, M.D., 

 Trinity College, Toronto. Read before the Canadian Institute, 

 Dec. 17th, 1854 , ' 



Additional Observations by J. Bovell, JI.D. ' 



The Bear 



The Lobster 



Account of an Extraordinary Sudden Fall in the Waters of the 

 Niagara River. Communicated to the Canadian Institute by 

 -\!ajor R. Lachlan, Montreal 



Remarks on the Planetoids between Mars and Jupiter. Read be- 

 fore the Canadian Institute, by T. Henuing, E.sq., March 10. 



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Indian Tribes of Canada. By the Rev. W. Bleasdell, M.A., Tren- 

 ton, C. W. Read before the Canadian Institute, Feb. 10th, 



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1855 



Coleoptera collected in Canada, by William Couper, Toronto 



Addenda by Henry Croft 



The St. Clair Flats and Lake Navigation 



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Emigration during 1854 



Tabular Statement of the Mean Results of Meteorological Obser- 

 vations, made at St. Martin, Isle Jesus, C. E., for the year 

 1854, by Charles Smallwood, M.D. Compiled for the Cana- 

 dian Journal 



On the Clearness of the Atmosphere in Oroomiah in Persia, "by 

 the Rev. T. D. Stoddard ". .'. 



Letter on the Smithsonian Institution. By Professor Agassiz 



On Peat and other Vegetable Charcoal, and some of its uses. By 

 Willianj Longniaid 



Proceedings of tlie Canadian Institute.... 



Proceedings of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec 



Substitutes for Citric and Tartaric Acid.'! and their Salts 



Canadian Maible 



On the separation of Silver from Lead 



Monthly Meteorological Register for Toronto 



Isle Jesus 



Quebec 



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