1855.] 



ANNUAL REPOET OF THE COUNCIL, 1855. 



895 



of Reference, specially designed to afford facilities for scientific 

 and literary research, the Council feel assured that the members 

 will hail it as an additional step in furtherance of the objects of 

 the Institute, rather than as a condition detracting in any degree 

 from the value of the increase made to the collections. 



The Council avail themselves of this opportunity to record 

 the obligations under which they, as well as all the members 

 of the Institute, are laid to Oliver Mowat, Esq., one of their 

 number, by whom all the requisite legal deeds, for effecting the 

 union of the Athenasum with the Canadian Institute, have been 

 gratuitously prepared and executed. 



The additions made to the Library, by purchase, during the 

 past year, include some works of value, among which the 

 Council have been indebted to Lieutenant-Colonel Lefroy's good 

 services, for enabling them to acquire seventeen volumes of the 

 Philosophical Transactions, wanted to complete the Library 

 set. But the Council have been induced to curtail their ex- 

 penditure, in this and other respects, in anticipation of the 

 inevitable outlay attendant on the resumption by the Govern- 

 ment of the rooms provided for the use of the Institute in 

 Government House. 



The following List comprises the additions which have been 

 made to the Library, by purchase, during the past year : — 



Books Plircliascd for tlie Library. 



Vols. 



Hand Book of Chemistry, by Leopold Gmelin, Professor 

 of Chemistry in the Dniversity of Heidelberg, &c., &c., 

 Vols. 1 to 8 8 



Physiological Chemistry, by Prof. C. G. Lehman, translated 

 by George E. Day, M.D., F.R.S., Vols. 1 &2 2 



Life of the Hon. Henry Cavendish, including abstracts of 

 his more important scientific Papers, and a critical in- 

 quiry into the claims of all alleged discoTCries of the 

 composition of Water; by George Wilson, M.D., F.R.S.E., 

 Lecturer on Chemistry, Edinburgh 1 



Elements of Chemical and Physical Geology, by Gustav 

 Bischof, Ph. D., Prof, of Chemistry and Technology in 

 the University of Bonn ; translated from the manuscript 

 of the author by Benjamin H. Paul, F.C.S., & J. Drum- 

 mond, M.D., Vol. 1 1 



Life of John Dalton, by Wm. C. Henry, M.D., F.R.S 1 



The Planetary System, its Order and Physical Structure, by 

 J. P. Nicholl, LL.D., Prof of Astronomy in the Univer- 

 sity of Glasgow, &c 1 



Encyclopaedia Metropolitana, or System of Universal Know- 

 ledge. Third edition enlarged ; second division applied 

 sciences: Photography 1 



Atlas of Physiological Chemistry, consisting of microscopic 

 Figures, by Dr. Otto Funke, a Supplement to Lehman's 

 Physiological Chemistry 1 



A Pamphlet accompanying do., by the same author 1 



Report of Sixth Anniversary Meeting of the Cavendish So. 1 



London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine 



and Journal of Science, January, 1855 1 



February, " 1 



March, " 1 



April, " 1 



May, " 1 



June, " 1 



The Ethnological Journal — a Magazine of Ethnographical 

 and Antiquarian Science. Edited by Luke Burke, Esq. 

 New series, published quarterly. — No. 1, Jan., 1851 1 



Philosophical Transactions for the years 1817-18-21-22- 

 23-24-25, two Vols.-26, two Vol3.-27-28-29-30-31-32 



and 33— total Vols 17 



The following books have been bound, and added to the 

 Library, from the Periodicals received during previous years : 



Vols. 



Journal of the Franklin Institute, 1851 2 



•■ " 1852 2 



AthensDum, 1840 11 Gift from 



1841 1/Lt. Col. Lefroy. 



Athenoeum, 1851 1 



1853 1 



Transactions of the Board of Agriculture of 



Upper Canada, 1853 1 



Journal of Education, UpperCanada, 1853 1 



The Artizan, 1851 1 



1852 1 



1853 1 



London Quarterly Review, 1852 1 



North British Review, 

 Westminster, " 

 Edinburgh, ' 



1853 1 



1852-3 1 



1852 1 



1852 1 



1853 1 



Blackwood, July to December, 1852 1 



Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal, 1852.... 1 

 Anglo American, Vol. II. "] 



" III. 1 4 



" IV. f 



" ** ** V. I 



Appleton's Mechanics' Magazine, 1851 1 



" " 1852 1 



" 1853 1 



Art Journal, 1853 1 



1854 1 



Blackwood's Magazine, 1854 2 



Westminster, 1854 1 



London Quarterly, 1854 1 



Edinburgh, Review, 1854 1 



Illustrated London News, 1863 2 



1854 2 



Journal of the Franklin Institute, 1853 2 



" " Societyof Arts, London, 1852-3. 1 



Civil Engineer and Architects' Journal, 1853, 



Vol. XVI 1 



Journal of Education, 1854 1 



The Council have great pleasure in acknowledging the liber- 

 ality with which contributions continue to be made to the 

 Library ; and they feel assured that nothing is wanted but a 

 permanent building, with suitable accommodation for the ade- 

 quate display of the collections, to secure for the Institute a 

 Library and Museum, alike creditable to itself, and of practical 

 benefit in advancing the cause of science in the Province. The 

 following are the donations which have been received since 

 last report : — 



Donations to the Library* 



Vols. 



1 



The Geology of the Island of Arran, by A. C. 



Ramsey 



Handbook for Field Service, edited by Captain 



Lefroy, Royal Artillery 



*Report of the Comrs. of Public Works for the 



years 1853 and 1855 



*Retum relating to Judicial Officers in L. Ca. 

 ♦Titles & Documents relating to the Seigniorial 

 Tenure, in return to an address of the Legis- 

 lative Assembly, 1851 1 



*Edicts, Ordinances, Declarations, and Decrees 

 relative to the Seigniorial Tenure, required 

 by an address of the Legis. Asscm., 1851.... 1 

 ♦Relation abr^g(;e de quelques Missions des Pbres 

 de la Comp. do Jesus dans la Nouvcllc France 1 

 Transactions of the Literary and Historical So- I 



ciety of Quebec, Vols. I. & II 2/ 



Annual Report of the Normal, Model, and '^ 

 Grammar Schools in U.C, year 1853 1 J 



From .Mr. Bohn, per A. H. Armour: — 



Cowpcr's Works, Vol. TV l"! 



Vols. V. & VI 2 



Hungary, its History and Revolutions 1 V 



History of Russia from tho earliest Period... 1 | 

 Locke's Philosophical Works, Vol. II IJ 



Tho&o marked thus ^*) aro Pamphlets. 



A. H. Armour. 



, I Capt. Lefroy 

 l} 



Hon. W. B. Ro- 

 binson. 



Thos. Henning. 



A. E. Meredith. 



Dep't of Pub. In- 

 struction, U.C. 



Stand. Library. 



