INDEX. 



PAGES 



Niagara Suspension Bridge 19 



" Biver, Sudden Fall in the Waters of, March, 1848 204 



Nature, Printing from Wood 332 



Naval Architecture, Progress of 144 



Nova Scotia, Meriones andArvioolte found in 388 



Organic Radicals 113 



Original Communications : — 



1.— W. E. Logan, F.R.S., F.G.S. On the Physical Structure 



of the Westei-n District of Upper Canada 1 



2. — James Williamson (Prof.). On the Longitude of Kingston 82 



3. — Alexander Murray. IMeteorological Observations on Lake 



Nipissing, October and November, 1854 146 



4. — -Address of the President of the Canadian Institute 153 



5. — Daniel Wilson, LL.D Observations suggested by Specimens 

 of a Class of Conchological Kelics of the Bed Indian 

 Tribes of Canada West 155 



6. — J. B. Cherriman, M.A. Mean Meteorological Results at 



Toronto during the Tear 1854 , 161 



7. — Dr. Craigie. Mean Results of Meteorological Observations 



at Hamilton for the year 1854 172 



8. — Dr. Smallwood. Monthly Meteorological Registers at St. 



Martin,Isle Jesus, C.E. (See Meteorological Registers). 



" Remarkable Low Temperatures at St. Martin, Isle 



Jesus, Dec. 1854 171 



" Temperature of the Cold Days of February, 1855 196 



" Tabular Statement of the Mean Results of Meteorologi- 

 cal observations made at St. Martin, Isle Jesus, for 

 the year 1854 214 



9.-— Messrs. Cherriman and Irving. Supplementary Report of 

 the Committee appointed by the Council of the Cana- 

 dian Institute to draw up Instructions relative to the 

 Solar Eclipse of May 26th, 1854 177 



10. — E. J. Chapman. Note on the Object of the Salt Condition 



of the Sea 186 



11. — James Bovell, M.D. On the Transfusion of Milk, as prac- 

 tised in Chclera, at the Cholera Sheds, Toronto 188 



12. — Dr. Goadby and James Bovell, M.D. Passing Visits to 

 Rice Lake, Humber Biver, Grenadier's Pond, and the 

 Island 201 



13. — James Bovell, M.D. On the Structure of Certain Parts of 



the Bear and Lobster 203 



14. — Major R. Lachlan. Account of a Sudden Fall in the 



Waters of the Niagara River, March, 1848 204 



15. — Thomas Henning. Remarks on the Planetoids between 



Mars and Jupiter 206 



16.— Rev. Wm. Bleasdell, M.A. The Indian Tribes of Canada. 209 



17. — William Couper. Catalogue of Coleoptera Collected in 



Canada 210, 256, 324, 376 



18.— Lieut. A. Noble and Mr. Wm. D. C. Campbell. Monthly 

 Meteorological Registers for Quebec (See Met. Reg.) 



19. — Frederick Cumberland, C.E. Some Notes of a Visit to the 

 Works of the Grand Trunk Railway, West of Toronto, 

 February, 1855 225 



20. — E. J. Chapman. Additional Note on the Object of the 



Salt Condition of the Sea 227 



21. — John T. Newton. Meteorological Observations, Fort 



Brady, Michigan, February, 1855 243 



22.— T. C. Clarke, C.E. On the Action of the Ice upon the 



Bridge of Rice Lake 249 



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23. — Paul Kane. Incidents of Travel on the North West Coast, 



Vancouver's Island, Oregon, &c. The Chinook Indians. 273 

 24. — Thomas Cottle. The Evening Grosbeck ; Coccolhraustes 



Vespertina 289 



" The Mastodon Giganteus 405 



2.5. — Major E. Lachlan. On the Foi-mation of a Canal between 



Lakes St. Clair and Erie 303 



26. — Fred. H. Ibbetson. Canadian Coleoptera in the Collection 

 of Fred, H. Ibbetson, Assistant Commissary-General, 



Montreal 325 



27. — Daniel Wilson, LL.D. Hints for the Formation of a Ca- 

 nadian Collection of Ancient Crania 345 



" Some Associations of the Canadian and English Maple 381 

 28. — Major B. Lachlan. Supplementary Bemarks in behalf of 

 the Establishment of a Provincial System of Meteorolo- 

 gical Observations 405 



29. John George Hodgins. Memorandum : on the steps which 

 have been taken by the Educational Department, to 

 establish a system of Meteorological Stations through- 

 out Upper Canada 410 



Osmotic Force, by Pi-ofessor Graham 12 



Ottawa Eegion, Mineral Wealth of 147 



Owen on the Social Position and Eeward of Scientific Merit in 



England 339 



Oxygen — Ozone 312 



Palajozoic Bocks of Scotland, Sub-division of 115 



Paper from Wood 19 



" Materials for 32,39, 44 



" Manufacture of -338 



" from the Thistle 298 



Parafiine, Manufacture of, from Bituminous Shales 17 



" from Coal , 66 



Paris Exhibition, Items of the 412 



Pathology, Industrial 29 



Peat, Irish, Company 40 



Pendulum Experiments 166 



Peristaltic Induction of Electric Cun-ents in Submarine Wires 413 



Picture Galleries, Novel Arrangement of „.... 265 



Pile, Screw and Pneumatic 121 



Pins and Needles, Process of Whitening , 84 



Photography, Preservation of the Sensitiveness of Collodion Plates 2 



" the Wax-paper Process 34 



" Employment of the Cyanid of Iodine , 310 



" Process for obtaining Lithographs by means of 412 



Planetoids, Remarks on, between Mars and Jupiter 206 



Plants, Influence of Solar Badiations on 112 



" Associations of Colour and Form in 144 



" on the Asteroids 356 



Political and Social Wealth 33 



Potato, Substitute for 70 



Postage, Colonial 173 



Precious Metals, Product of, throughout the World, 1853 41 



" " in England 46, 94 



Problem, Adam's Prize 356 



Quebec, Literary and Historical Society of 117, 141, 170, 268 



" " " Annual General Meeting, 1855. 195 



" " " Proceedings of 220,243,384 



" " " Notice of the Transactions of... 327 



