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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 1855. 



[1855. 



•Prize Essay, Alex. Morris. 



*Canada, by Hon. F. Hincks. 



^Reports 1st and 2nd, Inquiry into Public Income and Expenditure. 



*Keport of Inquiry into Public Departments. 



♦Political Catechism, in French. 



'Public Accounts for the year 1852. 



♦Annual Report of the Post Master General, for the Year ending 



5th of April, 1852. 

 ♦Report of Commissioners of Public Works, 1851. 

 ♦Report of Select Committee on Charges against tho late Ministry, 



1854. 

 ♦Seignorial Tenure, J. C. Tache. 

 ♦Public Accounts, 1853. 

 ♦Report on the Riot at Chalmers' Church. 

 ♦Report on Accidents on Great Western Railway. 

 ♦Second Report on Public Accounts, 1853. 

 ♦Report on the Management of Public Lands. 

 ♦Report on Agricultural Societies in Lower Canada. 

 ♦Documents — Bureau of Agriculture. 

 ♦Journal of the Transactions of the Board of Agi-icultuae of Upper 



Canada, No. II., Vol. I. 

 ♦Do., No. III., Vol. I. 



♦Roman Catholic Bishop of Toronto, &c., on Separate Common Schools. 

 ♦Seven Letters on the Common School System. 

 ♦Correspondence on Separate Schools. 

 ♦Annual Report of the Normal, Model, aud Common Schools, Upper 



Canada, 1851. 

 ♦Do., 1853. 



♦Report on Ice-Bridge at Quebec. 

 ♦Heat and Ventilation, &c. 

 ♦Philosophic des Chemins de Per. 



♦Report on the St. Lawrence and Ottawa Junction Railway. 

 ♦Report on Organizing the Militia* 

 ♦The Upper Canada Journal. 



♦Report on Cause of Fire in Parliament Buildings, 1854. 

 ♦Report on North Shore Railway. 

 ♦Report on Admiralty Tariff of Fees. 

 ♦Return — Contracts to the Junction Canal. 

 " Schools in the Ottawa District. 



" connected with the Grand Trunk Railroad. 



" Montreal Harbour. 



♦Papers — Late Welland Canal Company. 

 ♦Statement of Expenditure of £30,000 in aid of Settling Vacant 



Lands in Lower Canada. 

 ♦County Lotbinere Election Committee. 



♦Report — Catalogue of Books in Library of Legislative Assembly. 

 ♦Orders of the Court of Chancery. 



♦Despatches — referring to Seignoireal Tenure in Lower Canada. 

 ♦Estimate of Expenses of Civil Government, 1853. 

 ♦Loose Sheets — The Statutes of Canada. 

 ♦Logan's Geological Survey — Report of Progress, 1848-49. 

 ♦Do. 1850-51. 

 ♦Do. 1851-52. 



From the Rev. W. Aoak Aoamson, D.C.L.: — 

 Minutes of the Committee of Council on Education, with Appendices 



and Plans of School Houses, 1845. Vol. II. 

 Do. do. do. England and Wales, 



Schools of Parochial Unions, 1847-8-9 

 Do. do. 1848-9, Correspondence, &c. 



Do. do. Correspondence, Tabulated Satements of Grants 



&c., 1848-49-50, Vol. L 

 Do. do. Vol. II. 



Do. do. Financial Statements, &c., and Reports by Her 



Majesty's Inspectors of Schools, 1850-51. 

 Do. do. Schools of Parochial Unions in England aud Wales, 



&c., 1850-51-52. 

 Do. do. Correspondence, &c„ "1851-2. 



Do. do. do. 1852-3. 



From Lieut.-Col, J. H. Lefeoy, R.A. : — 

 ItaUan Irrigation, by Capt. R. Baird Smith, F.R.S., Vols. I. & II. 

 Magnetical and Meteorological Observations made at Lake Atha- 

 basca, &c., by Capt. J. H. Lefroy, R.A. 

 From the Hon. J. 51. Brodheab, of Washington, through A. H. 



Armour, Toronto : — 

 Patent Office Reports, 1854, Agriculture. 



United States Coast Survey, 1854. Report of the Superintendent. 

 Explorations and Surveys for a Railroad from the Mississippi River 

 to the Pacific Ocean. 



The thanks of the Institute were ordered to he transmitted 

 to the donors for their valuahle donations. 



A Paper was read by Professor Chapman, " On a Convenient 

 Method of Indicating in Crystal Combinations the Relative 

 Positions and Degrees of Development of the Included Forms." 



Annual General Itleetlng* Saturday, Decemlier IStli, 1SS5« 



The Annual Report was read and adopted. 



ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 1855. 



The Council of the Canadian Institute have the honour 

 to submit to the 3Iembers, the following Report of the operations 

 of the past Session, and of the proceedings adopted by the 

 Council with a view to the still more effective furtherance of 

 the objects for which the Institute has been founded. 



The Council have much satisfaction in reporting, that the 

 progress of the Institute, as indicated by the number of its 

 members, continues to furnish gratifying evidence of the 

 increasing hold it is acquiring on the Province. Last year the 

 Council drew attention to the fact.that the members — who 

 numbered only 112 at the close of 1851, the first year of incor- 

 poration — had increased, in all, to 333, and since then we have 

 to report a further addition of 104 members, which, after 

 deducting eighteen, resigned or deceased, make the present 

 number of members constituting the Canadian Institute, 419, 

 exclusive of those of the Athenajum. 



In the last Annual Report, the Council referred to the anti- 

 cipated amalgamation of the Athenaeum with the Canadian 

 Institute. This highly desirable union has since been happily 

 completed. A permissive Act, giving the Athenaeum full 

 power to effect a junction with the Institute, was passed during 

 the last Session of the Provincial Parliament, and since then 

 the requisite deeds have been executed, and the valuable 

 Library and Collection of Minerals have been transferred to the 

 Canadian Institute. The importance of the addition thus 

 acquired to the Library can scarcely be too highly estimated, 

 as it consists, in all, of 800 volumes, including the Transactions 

 of various of the leading Scientific and Literary Societies of 

 Great Britain, as well as other works of a strictly scientific 

 character. The Council recommend to their successors the 

 duty of completing and continuing the valuable serial publica- 

 tions thus acquired ; and of cultivating that intercourse with 

 the Scientific Societies not only of Britain, but of Europe, 

 which may secure an interchange of a class of publications so 

 beneficial to the Institute. 



The Minerals added to the Museum, in consequence of this 

 amalgamation, it is believed will also prove a valuable addition 

 to the collections of the Institute ; but the difficulties attendant 

 on their removal, and the very brief period that has elapsed 

 since the completion of the requisite legal deeds for effecting 

 the union with the Athenseum, have prevented a minute 

 examination of them ; and the Council would suggest the 

 appointment of a small Committee, to superintend their classi- 

 fication, and to report on their nature and value. 



The duty will devolve on the new Council to adopt means 

 for carrying out, in the most liberal spirit, the conditions 

 annexed to the acquisition of the Library of the Athen»um, 

 whereby the Institute becomes bound to afford the public free 

 access to the joint Library, under such restrictions as may be 

 found requisite for its safety. In thus establishing a Library 



