PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE, 



SESSION 1887-88. 



FIRST MEETING. 



First Meeting, 5th November, 1887, the President in the 

 chair. 



Donations since last meeting, ^6 \ Exchanges, 11 12; of 

 which 25 were new exchanges. 



The following were elected members : — D. W. Clendenan, 

 Canniff Haight, John Charles Dent, Allan McLean Howard. 



The following resolution was moved by James H. Pearce, 

 seconded by J. D. Tyrrell, M.D., and carried : 



That the Canadian Institute having been formally advised during 

 the vacation of the death of Spencer FuUerton Baird, LL.D., 

 Director of the U. S. National Museum, and Secretary of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, Washmgton, take the opportunity of the first 

 meeting of the session, to place on record their high appreciation of 

 his executive powers and ability as a naturalist, displayed during a 

 period of so many years when in charge of the most important 

 scientific institutions of the United States, and instruct their Secre- 

 tary to convey this motion of condolence to the Directors of the 

 Institution over which he so long and ably presided. 



Mr. Pearce, on behalf of the Industrial Exhibition Board, 

 presented the gold medal awarded to the Institute for their 

 exhibit of Archaeological Specimens at the Exhibition of 

 1887. 



Mr. Alderman Piper on behalf of Mr. Cordier, presented a 

 piece of the Obelisk, Central Park, New York. 



