THE CANADIAN JOURNAL 



A REPERTORY OF 



INDUSTRY, SCIENCE, AND ART; 



AND A RECORD OF THE 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



TORONTO, UPPER CANADA, DECEMBER, 1855. 



CONTENTS 



Page. 



Canadian Institute, Session 1855-56 : — 



First Ordinary Meeting, Saturday, December 1st, 1855 ... 393 



Second Ordinary Meeting, Saturday December 8th, 1855... 393 



Annual General Meeting, Saturday, December 15th, 1855 . 394 



Donations to the Library 395 



Communications 398 



Estimate of the present position of the Canadian Institute . 400 

 '-'opy of Indenture relating to the Union of the Canadian 



Institute and Toronto Athenteum 401 



Alphabetical List of Members of the Canadian Institute ... 402 



The Mastodon Giganteus 405 



Suplementary Remarks in behalf of the establishment of a 



Provincial System of Meteorological Obsenations 405 



Report of Editing Committee on Major Lachlan's Supple- 

 mentary Remarks 409 



Memorandum. On the steps which liavo been taken by the 

 li ducatioiial Department, to nstablish a system of Meteoro- 



Fitgt- 



logical Stations throughout Upper Canada, by •/. George 



Hodgins, Deputy Superintendent of Schools 410 



Montreal Natural History Society 411 



The British Association for the Advancement of Science : — 



On Alloys of Iron and Aluminum 411 



On some of the General Mechanical Structures of Limestone 411 



On Aurora Borealis 411 



Process for obtaining Lithographs by means of Photography 412 

 On Peristaltic Induction of Electric Currents in Submarine 



Wires 413 



Thermogenic Apparatus 412 



The Canadian .rournal — Close of the Series 413 



Items in the Paris Exhibition 412 



Yield of the Copper Miues for 1855 413 



Monthly Meteorological Table for Toronto 414 



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