32 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



implements. After some remarks on the country in which the 

 reHcs were found, viz., the west shore of Balsam Lake, he gave 

 a description of the various articles and their uses. 



EIGHTEENTH MEETING. 



Eighteenth Meeting, 17th March, 1888, the President in 

 the chair. 



Donations and exchanges since last meeting, 51. 



The Council reported the election of A. C. Barrett and C. H. 

 A. Baird, as associates. 



Mr. W.A. Douglass and Prof. Baker were appointed Auditors 

 for the year. 



After the sale of last year's periodicals Mr. J. A. Living- 

 ston read a paper on " Creation," in which he took the ground 

 that the earth spoken of in Genesis was the dry land as contra- 

 distinguished from the seas. The word earth was never used 

 to denote the whole globe until the sixteenth century. He 

 proceeded to demonstrate mathematically several problems in 

 connection with planetary and geological growths. He con- 

 tended that coal was in a liquid state originally, and its forma- 

 tion the result of mineral rather than vegetable processes. 



NINETEENTH MEETING. 



Nineteenth Meeting, 24th March, 1888, the President in the 

 chair. 



Donations and exchanges since last meeting, 131, including 

 15 volumes presented to the Library by Henry Rowsell, Esq. 



