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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, NOVEMBER, 1855. 



CONTENTS 



Page. 

 Meeting of the British Association at Glasgow. The President's 



Address 369 



Coleoptera collected in Canada. By William Coupee, Toronto... 376 



The Laying oi- the Fouxdatio.n Stone of the Hall of the 



Canadian Institute : 



Address of the President to His Excellency the Governor 



General 377 



His Excellency's Reply, &c. &c 378 



The Conversazione of the Canadian Institute 380 



Some Associations of the Canadian and English Maple — Read 



by Daniel Wilson, L.L.D., Professor of History, U.C., at the 



Conversazione 381 



Canadian Institue. — Council Meeting, September 21st 383 



Canadian Journal — New Series. — Programme 383 



Page. 

 Council Meetings— Oct. 13th, Oct. 27th, Nov. 10th, Nov. 20th. 384 



Quebec Literary and Historical Society 384 



Montreal Natural History Society 385 



Geology in America. — A continuation of an Addi'ess delivered 

 before the American Association for the Advancement of 



Science. By Professor James D. Dana 385 



African Explorers — Barth and Vogel 387 



Singular Mortality among the Swallow Tribe in May, 1855— Eng- 

 land 388 



On the Species of Mcriones and Anicoltc found in Nova Scotia.... 388 



Monthly Meteorological Table for Toronto 389 



Do. do. do. St. Martin, Isle Jesus 390 



Do. do. do. Quebec (.Vugust) 391 



Do. do. do. " (September) 392 



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