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Dr. Wilson, in accordance with previous notice, moved : 



That in Rule 1, of Section II., the -words "and third" be added after " second" 

 so as to admit of the election of a third Vice-President in aciordrmce with the 

 provisions of the Charter. — Carried. 



The Report of the Council for the year 1855-56, was then read as follows : 

 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 1856. 



The Council of the Canadian Institute have the honor to submit the following 

 Report of the proceedings of the Institute during the past year. 



The Council have the highest satisfaction in announcing that upwards of one 

 hundred and fifty names have been added to the list of Members since the date 

 of the last Annual Report, and that the accessions thus made to the numerical 

 strength of the Institute indicate not only local, but widely spread interest and 

 co-operation. 



The total number of Members of the Institute now amount to five hundred, of 

 whom it may be interesting to note that there are : 370 residents of Toronto, 

 162 of other parts of Upper Canada, 33 of Lower Canada, and 10 Foreign Mem- 

 bers : thus establishing the Institute as provincial rather than local in its 

 character. 



The Council have continued to make such additions to the Library by purchase 

 as the funds at their command would seem to justify ; and they trust that those 

 additions, comprising nearly one hundred volumes of completed Works — independent 

 of periodical literature — will commend their efforts in this particular to the 

 approval of the Institute. 



The Council have great pleasure in submitting the list of Donatious made 

 to the Library during the past year, indicative not only of extended interest 

 in this important branch of our efforts, but illustrating continued and very re- 

 markable liberality on the part of Donors to whom the Institute had before been 

 largely indebted. Although anxious to avoid invidious references where so many 

 are entitled to the acknowledgments of the Institute, the Council are warranted in 

 particularly noting the generous contributions of the Honorable J. M. Brodhead 

 of Washington, a valuable donation, including 25 volumes; of Mr. Bohn of Lon- 

 don, England, including 5S volumes ; and of Dr. Chewett of Toronto, including 51 

 volumes ; to each of whom the Institute is especially indebted for large and very 

 valuable additions to its collection, of a class of works peculiarly suited to the- 

 objects which the Institute is chiefly designed to promote. By the various additions 

 thus made to the Library, its value for the purposes of reference has been con- 

 siderably increased, and it now embraces a collection of upwards of seveuteen 

 hundred volumes, the great majority of which are of a scientific or practical 

 character. 



In the last annual Report for the year 1855-6, the Council expressed their regret 

 that no addition to the Museum had been made during the year then closing. 

 It is therefore with greater satisfaction that the Council have now to acknowledge 

 the receipt of contributions : — the list of which, embracing various specimens in 

 Geology and Natural History, and a small collection of fifty -five silver coins, 

 including those of Edward II., III., and VI., and Queen Elizabeth, will be 

 enumerated in the classified catalogue, — not only because of the value attaching 

 to these donations, but as justifying the hope that the collection may be early 

 augmented to a standard of usefulness. 



