THE CANADIAN JOURNAL, 



A REPERTORY OF 



INDUSTRY, SCIENCE, AND ART 



AND A EECORD OF THE 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



TORONTO, UPPER CANADA, JUNE, 1855. 



CONTENTS: 



Piigt. 

 On the action of the Ico upon the Bridge of Rice Lalce, by T. C. 

 Clarke, C.E. Communicated to the Canadian Institute 



April 21st, 1855 249 



Report of the Select Committee on the Geological Survey of Can- 

 ada. — Minutes of Evidence 250 



Coleoptera collected in Canada; by William Couper, Toronto 256 



Water Works in the United States ; by Jacob Houghton, C.E 259 



The Hurricane of the 18th April, 1855 261 



Sir Henry dc la Beche and Mr. Greenough 262 



The Antiquities of Canusium. — (Apulia.) 263 



The Ash Mounds of Jerusalem 263 



The Relations of Lead to Air and Water 264 



Salubrity of Towns 264 



Cholera and the Water Supply 264 



Meeting of Dr. Barth and Dr. Vogel 245 



Novel arrangement of Picture Galleries 265 



Progress of Melbourne, Australia 266 



The Great Minnesota Copper Mine 266 



Miners and their Privations 266 



Lightening of Labour in Mines — the Man Machine 2G6 



Tlie Canadian Journal — New Series 266 



Pine- 



Canadian Saturnite^Silkworms 266 



Canada West — Information for intending Emigrants 267 



Literary and Historical Society of Quebec 208 



Notices of Books. 



Journal and Transactions of the Board of Agriculture of Upper 



Canada 268 



The Canadian Literary News Letter.^ 268 



Rice Lake Bridge 268 



Provincial Observatory 269 



Terrestrial Magnetism 269 



Mode of Measuring the Force, &c., of Earthquakes 269 



The Reported Death of Dr. Barth 269 



Museum of Practical Geology 269 



MlSCELL.\NEOCS INTELLIGENCE. 



Industrial Museum of Scotland. — Death of the Authoress of 

 Jane Eyre. — Death of M. Braconnot. — Death of Joseph Bemy. 

 —The Sault St. Mary Canal.— The New Planet Leukothca 



Errata 269 



Monthly Meteorological Register for Toronto 270 



" " " ^ Isle JesusT^r^;^. 271 



" ,' ^: Quebec-..!J.l».v4;./. 272 



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