30 PKOCEEDINGS i F TIIK CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



Mr. Harvey thought that some valuable results may be 

 arrived at, and, recommended the appointment of a com- 

 mittee to investigate the subject. 



EIGHTEENTH MEETING. 



Eighteenth Meeting, i6th March, 1889, the President in the 

 chair. 



Exchanges since last meeting, 66. 



Messrs. Arthur Harvey and D. B. Dick were appointed 

 Auditors f )r the current year. 



A communication was read from " La Societa Siciliana per 

 la Storia Patria," Palermo, announcing the death of its dis- 

 tinguished President, S. E. Vincenzo Fardella, Marchese di 

 Torrearsa, Caveliere dell Ordine Supremo della SS Annun- 

 ziata, ex-President of the Chamber of Deputies of Sicily, 

 Senator of the Kingdom, and late President of the Senate of 

 Italy. A resolution of condolence was adopted by the meet- 

 ing, and ordered to be sent to the above mentioned society. 



Dr. Otto Hahn read a paper on his trip through Canada in 

 1878, and the discovery of organisms in meteorities, with de- 

 monstrations by the microscope. 



NINETEENTH MEETING. 



Nineteenth Meeting, 23rd March, 1889, the Vice-President 

 in the chair. 



Donations and Exchanges since last meeting, 33. 



Communicatians were Read from the Royal Society of 

 Canada, respecting the Seventh Annual Meeting, and from 



