CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



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Life Member. 

 John Page, Esq., Matilda. 

 The following Donations were announced, and the thanks of the Institute voted 



to the Donors : 

 Presented by M. De L. A. Huet Latour, N. P. — 

 Les Servantes de Dieu en Canada, 1853. 

 Essai de Logique Judicaire. 



Catechisme de l'Histoire du Canada, par M. Bibaud. 

 Court Traite sur l'Art Epistolaire. 

 Presented by the Hon. J. M. Broadhead, Washington, per A. H. Armour. 

 Smithsonian Report, 1S54. 



Statistical History of the United States' Navy, lllo to 1853. 

 Report of the United States Coast Survey for year 1852. 

 The following Papers were read : 



1. By Capt. Noble, Royal Artillery, F.R. S., " On the value of the Factor in the 

 Hygrometric Formula." 



2. By Professor Cherriman, M. A., "On a Method of reducing the general 

 Equation of the second degree in plane co-ordinate Geometry." 



3. By Professor Chapman, "Report of the Committee appointed to examine a 

 specimen of the Proteus exhibited before the Institute." 



4. By Professor Croft, D. C. L., " On some new Salts of Cadmium, and on the 

 Iodides of Barium and Strontium." 



MEAN RESULTS OF METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS AT HAMILTON, 

 CANADA WEST, FOR THE YEAR 1855. 



BY BE. CEA1GIE. 



MONTHS. 



January .... 

 February . 



March 



April 



May 



June 



July 



August 



September . 

 October .... 

 November . 

 December 





THEEHOMETEE. 



Mean 



Mean 



Mean 





at 



at 



of 



^ 



9 a.m 



9 p.m. 



both. 



3 



9 



a 



s 



o 



28-9 



29-86 



29-37 



60 



18'857 



1943 



19143 



45 



31-22 



33 00 



32-11 



60 



45'8 



45-16 



45-48 



82 



58'0 



55-9 



66.95 



85 



0303 



6223 



0263 



93 



72-1 



71-2 



71-65 



96 



69-00 



67.1 



08-08 



96 



6*76 



83*63 



64*2 



91 



48-13 



17-65 



47-89 



83 



40-86 



41*3 



41 OS 



64 



29*18 



29-29 



29*21 



55 





BAROMETEE. 



DATS. 















 CO 





<a 



C 



A 



o 



p 



~ 









SO 







-I 





a 



H 



M 



o 



Hi 



'1 



X 



5 



a 



«■ 



o 



29-65 



30*50 



28-70 



3 



11 



17 



-20 29-620 



30-05 



29-20 



4 



10 



14 



11 129-559 



30-04 



29-00 



3 



8 



20 



15 129-694 



30-03 



29-32 



" 



8 



20 



36 29-6 



29-98 



29*40 



1 



5 



■i:, 



35 29*593 



29'84 



2!ni:, 



6 



5 



19 



60 89*71 



2990 



29*48 



2 



12 



17 



it 29*7466 



lino-: 



29-2S 



a 



:' 



25 



38 29*787 



80*03 



29*40 



3 



7 



20 



80 29*580 



29-90 



29*16 



5 



8 



18 



21 |29*707 



80*18 



29-03 



4 



s 



is 







129*616 



3016 



28*5 1 



6 



8 



17 



Mean 

 Tempera- 

 ture of 



1846.. 



1847.. 



1818.. 



1849.. 



1850.. 



1861 



1852.. 



1863.. 



1854.. 



1865.. 



50215 

 48*163 

 49295 

 48106 

 48*782 

 .48*766 

 ,48*248 

 .49-474 

 Unii3 

 47*816 



17 Mian 48-732 



Mean temperature of Year 47-316 



