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twelfth ordinary meeting — 15th March, 1856. 



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



The following Gentlemen were elected Members: 



Rev. David Inglis, Hamilton. 



S. M. Jara'is, Esq., Toronto. 



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



the Donor : 

 By the Hon. J. M- Brodhead, of Washington : — 

 "United States Official Register for 1855." 



" Report on the principal Fisheries of the American Seas, by Lorenzo Sabine." 

 Tlic following Papers were then read: 



1. By the Rev. Professor Young, M.A. — 



"A New Proof of the Parallelogram of Forces." 



2. By T. C. Keefer, Esq., C.E.— 

 " On Civil Engineering." 



thirteenth ordinary meeting — 1§th March, 1856. 

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

 The following Gentlemen were elected Members : 

 Hervey W. Price, Esq., Toronto. 

 Rev. John Jennings, Toronto. 

 William Smart, Esq., Belleville. 

 Rev. R. J. MacGeorge, Streetsville. 

 John 0. Hatt, Esq., Hamilton. 

 Rev. Edmund Baldwin, M.A., Toronto. 

 Charles Griffin, Esq., Toronto. 

 A. N. Maclean, Esq., Toronto. 



F. P. Hincks, Esq, Toronto. 

 John C. Geikie, Esq., Toronto. 



G. 31. Evans, Esq., M.A., Simcoe, C. W. 



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



to the Donors : 



1. By James Alexander, Esq. — 



" Suggestions for a Simple System of Decimal Notation and Currency." 



2. By Mr. W. Couper.— 



Six species of exotic Dytescidas. 

 Ten species of exotic Lamillicornaj. 

 A Racoon Skin. 



The following Papers ivere then read : 



1. By Colonel Baron de Rottenburg — 



" Some Observations on the supposed Self-luminosity of the planet Neptune." 



2. By Alfred Brunei, E-q., C. E.— 



" Economy of Fuel for Steam Machinery." 



The President intimated, by order of the Council, that at the following meeting 

 the Portrait of the First President of the Canadian Institute would be hung up in 

 the IJall of the Institute, and that Sir William Edmond Logan — on whom, since 

 the passing of the resolutions which were then to be carried into effect, Her Ma- 



