142 CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



From D. Appleton & Co., New York — 



Milledulcia ; A Thousand Pleasant Things selected from " Notes and Queries." 



From Harper <fe Brothers, Publishers, New York — 



New Granada — Twenty Months in the Andes, by Isaac F. Holton, M. A., with 

 maps and illustrations. 



Beaumarchais and his Times — French Society in the Eighteenth Century, by 

 Louis de Lemenie, translated by Henry S. Edwards. 



Lake Ngami — Wanderings in South Western Africa, by Charles J. Andersson. 



From A. H. Armour, Esq., — 



Aknanach de Gotha, 1856. 



Montreal in 1856, a Sketch prepared for the Opening of the Grand Trunk 

 Railway of Canada ; Pamphlet. 



From Rev. J. M. Phillippo, per Prof. Croft- 

 Transactions of the Society of Arts, Jamaica, for year 1854-5. 

 The following Communications tuere read: 



1 . By Professor Chapman : 



" A description of some Trilobites found at Whitby ; illustrated by specimens." 



2. By James Gilbert: 



" On the Arizara Copper Mine, accompanied with specimens of Ore from the 

 California Mines." 



The requisite nominations of office-bearers for the ensuing year were made, and 

 the Vice-President announced that on the following Saturday, the Annual General 

 Meeting would take place at Seven P. M., to receive the report of the Council, elect 

 the officers and members of Council for the ensuing year, and for other business. 



annual general meeting —Saturday, 20th December, 1856. 

 E. A. Meredith, LL.B., Vice-President, in the Chair, 

 The following Gentlemen were elected Members ; 

 Hugh Thomson, Esq., Toronto, 

 James W. Dunsford, Esq., Verulam, C. W. 

 Charles F. Gildersleeve, Esq., Toronto. 

 William Baldwin Sullivan, Esq., Toronto. 

 John Head, Toronto, f Junior Member.) 

 The following Communications were read: 



1. Bj Professor Croft, D. C. L., : 



" Notes on the Oxalate of Manganese." 



2. By Joseph Robinson, Esq., : 



" Ou a Process for ['reserving Timber from Decay." 



3. By James Bovell, M. D., : 

 " On Cell Developement." 



4. By R. T. Pennefather, Esq., : 



" Notes of a Journey made by Governor Simcoe, from Niagara to Detroit, in 



Prof. Cherriman, in accordance with previous notice, moved : 



That Rule 4, Sec. II., shall be amended by erasing the sum of £1 10s. 



and substituting therefor £10, as the sum payable by Members for Life — 



Carried. 



