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SIXTEENTH MEETING. 



Sixteenth Meeting, 2nd March, 1889, Vice-President Brown- 

 ing in the chair. 



Exchanges since last meeting. 38. 



Mr. E. G. Manning, C.E , P.L.S., was elected a member. 



The following resolution reported from the Geological and 

 Mining Section, was adopted and a copy was ordered to be 

 forwarded to the Ontario Government : 



In view of the great variety and undoubted value of the mineral 

 resources of Ontario, and the necessity to the capitalist, scientist and 

 prospector of having a typical collection of minerals to refer to in the 

 capital of this province, it is highly desirable that the Government of 

 Ontario make arrangements as soon as possible for a mineral museura 

 at the new Parliament Buildings, oi- elsewhere, in Toronto, and in the 

 meantime that temi)oraiy arrangements be made for a miner-al mu- 

 seum at some suitable place in the city. 



The following resolution was also passed : 



That the members of the Canadian Institute desire to record their 

 sense of the loss they have sustained in the death of George Paxton 

 Young, M.A., LL.D., Professor of Metapbj'sics and Ethics in Uni- 

 versity College, Toronto, one of the most distinguished life-members 

 of tlie Institute, whose high character as a man, attainments as a 

 scholar, and success as an educationalist, will cause his name to be 

 long lield in grateful remembrance by all who had the pleasure of his- 

 acquaintance. His numerous papers in Mathematics and Pliilosophy, 

 read before the Tnstitute, are among the most valuable contributions- 

 to its " Proceedings ; " and we hereby desire to tender our respectful 

 sympathy to his relatives and friends in their great affliction. 



That a copy of the above resolution be sent to the nearest relative 

 of Professor Young. 



Mr. Alexander D. Black read a paper on " The Genesis of 

 the Heaven and the Earth." 



