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Ordered, That the thanks of the Institute be conveyed to Mr. Campbell for bis 

 communication. 

 3. By Professor Wilson, LL.D. : 

 " On the Traces of the Ancient Miners of Lake Superior." 



sixth ordinary meeting — February 2d, 1856. 

 G. W. Allan, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



The fallowing Gentlemen were elected Members : 

 W. R. Ross, Esq., Toronto. 

 J. R. Williams, Esq., Bond Head. 

 R. H. Brett, Esq., Toronto. 

 A. J. Pell, Esq., Toronto. 

 R. J. Griffith, Esq., Toronto. 

 R. S. Woods, Esq., Chatham. 

 John Glass, Esq., Toronto. 

 Hon. J. A. Macdonald, Toronto. 

 The donation from John Fisk Allen, Esq., of Salem, Mass., was announced, of 

 his illustrated account of the Victoria Hegia, or Great Water Lily of America. 



Ordered, That the thanks of the Institute be conveyed to the donor for his 

 valuable gift. 



The President, on behalf of the Special Committee appointed with u view to 

 some fitting recognition of the services rendered to Canada by W. E. Logan, Esq., 

 the First President of the Canadian Institute, reported as follows: 



REPORT. 

 The Special Committee appointed to consider the best means to be adopted to 

 mark the sense the Institute entertain of the very valuable services rendered to 

 Canada by W. E. Logan, Esq., both in his capacity of Provincial Geologist, and ag 

 Commissioner to the great Exhibitions of London and Paris, beg respectfully to 

 recommend: 



That immediately upon Mr. Logan's arrival in Canada, a communication be ad 

 dressed to him by the Secretary on behalf of the Institute, requesting that he 

 would be pleased to sit for his portrait, to be painted at the expense of the Insti- 

 tute, and hung up thereafter in their Hall : That as soon as possible after Mr. Lo- 

 gan's arrival in Toronto, a special general meeting should be convened, at which 

 that gentleman should be invited to attend, to receive an address to be presented 

 to him by the Institute, expressing the high sense they entertain of the services 

 rendered by Mr. Logan to the cause of science generally, and more especially ac- 

 knowledging the very great obligations all Canadians are under to him, for having 

 by his untiring energy and perseverance in the discharge of hi3 duties, as one of 

 the Commissioners to the great Exhibitions of 1851 and 1855, contributed to make 

 the mineral resources of Canada most widely and favorably known, both in England 

 and on the Continent. 



The Report was adopted, and remitted to the Council to carry out the recom- 

 mendations contained therein, so soon as Mr. Logan shall arrive in Canada. 



Mr. Pell intimated, in furtherance of the same olject, that he would be happy 

 to present to the Institute a frame for the contemplated portrait of its former 

 President, so soon as it shall be completed. 



Tfie following Papers were then read: 



1. By James Browne, Esq. 



"Experiences in Australia; forming the first part of a series of Papers on the 

 Aborigines of Australia," 



2. By Professor Kingston, M. A. : 



" Mean Meteorological results of Toronto for 1855." 



