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Addenda. — Since the above report the Section has held two meet- 

 ings at which the following papers were read : 



(8) Apr. 10, 1888, " A Chart of Elocution," by T. B. Browning, 



M.A. 



(9) 24, " " Volapiik, the New World-Language," by D. 



R. Keys, B.A. 



(10) 24, " "On some Words of Indian Origin, in the 



Dialect and Literature of Quebec," by A. F. 

 Chamberlain, B.A. 



At the meeting of April 24, the following officers were elected : — 

 Chairman, Rev. J. F. McCurdy, Ph D. ; Vice-Chairman, D. R, 

 Keys, B.A. ; Secretary, A. F. Chamberlain, B.A. ; Ex. Committee, 

 H. R. Fairclough, M.A., AV. H. YanderSmissen, M.A., John Squair, 

 B.A., W. H. Fraser, B.A., G. E. Shaw,B. A., and W. H. Huston, 

 M.A. 



A. F. C. 



The Report of the Chairman of the Photographic Section 

 was read and referred to the Council. 

 The President read the following : — 



AxNUAL Report of the Council of the Canadian Institute 

 . Session, 1887-88. 



Th^ Council of the Canadian Institiite have the honour to lay 

 before the Members their Thirty-Ninth Annual Report : 



Early in the past Session the President, Mr. W. H, Yander- 

 Smissen, to whose exertions so much of the increased activity and 

 prosperity of the Institute was due, was unfortunately obliged, 

 through the pressure of other duties to resign, and the Yice-President 

 being at the time absent in Eui'ope, Mr. Charles Carpmael was elected 

 to fill the vacant position. 



Twenty-six meetings including the annual conversazione, have been 

 held during the past session, at which thirty -nine papers have been 

 read in addition to fifty read at Section meetings. The aggregate 

 number of papers read thus exceeds by seventeen that of the preced- 

 ing year, when there were but seventy-two, and this number was 



