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Officers of the Canadian Institute, 1888-9 iii 



Presidents since 1849 '. iv 



List op Members 287 



List of Exchanges 292 



Proceedings, Session 1888-9 1-58 



Sociological Circular 59 



Pkoceedings of The Ornithological Subsection 181-203 



PAPERS. 



I.— The Mississaguas of Scugog. 



A. F. Chamberlain, M.A 2 



II.— Modern Hindi as related to the Ancient Sanscrit 

 AND Prakrit 



• Rev. S. H. Kellogg, D.D 4 



III. — The Science of English. 



W. Houston, M.A 5 



IV. — Heat and Heating Buildings. 



Charles Levey, Esq 7 



V. — Wealth and its Measurement. 



W. A. Douglass, B. A 7 



VI. — Hand Grenades and Coal Torpedoes. 



Daniel Lamb,' Esq 9 



VII. — The Purposes of Comets. 



J. A. Livingston, Esq 9 



VIII. — The Progress of Canada. 



J. Castell Hopkins, Esq 10 



IX. — Deluge Myths of the Canadian Indians. 



A. F. Chamberlain, M.A 11 



X.--A Case of Mesmerism. 



Charles Armstrong, Esq 12 



XI. — Bibliography of Canadian Archaeology. 



A. F. Chamberlain, M.A 13 



XII. — The Luminiferous Ether 



J. M. Clark, M.A 15 



XIV. — The Blackfoot Confederacy. 



Rev. John McLean, M. A., Ph. D 17 



