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the regular publication of the Journal are now, it is hoped, no longer likely to in- 

 terfere with its issue at the appointed periods. 



From the Treasurer's accounts it appears that the entire cost of printing the 

 Journal for the year 1856, including illustrations, postages, <fec, for an edition in- 

 creased to one thousand copies, amounts to £257 Os. 9£d.* and in reference to this 

 your Committee would only draw attention to the fact that nearly the whole of 

 the matter being original, printed from the authors' manuscripts, and subject to 

 their revision and corrections, it is mainly owing to the exertions of those Editors 

 of the various sections who have gratuitously superintended the correction of the 

 press, that this eource of former outlay no longer occurs ; but that, on the contrary, 

 a considerable increase in this department of necessary expenditure has been 

 avoided. 



In the 6ix numbers for 1856, constituting the first volume of the New Series of 

 the Canadian Journal, twenty-nine original papers have been printed, twenty-four 

 of which have been selected from the communications made to the meetings of the 

 Institute during last session. Of the twenty-three Reviews accompanying these, 

 twenty have been contributed by members of the Editing Committee ; and they 

 have much pleasure in acknowledging the valuable services rendered to them, and 

 to the Institute, by the contributions of the Rev. Professor Young, and Professor 

 Buckland to this department. In carrying out the fourth head of the scheme 

 adopted for the new series of the Journal, which required " all matter derived from 

 published sources, to be printed in small type, and to form a distinct division or 

 appendix," your Committee have appended to each number a section entitled 

 Scientific and Literary Notes ; but it will be found that only a small portion of 

 this is borrowed from published sources. It has already, on more than one occa- 

 sion, embodied the first notice of original discoveries or observations, and has 

 regularly included translations and careful abstracts on one or more branches of 

 Science, from Home and Foreign Journals ; so that your Committee venture to 

 hope this section of the Journal will be regarded by many of its readers as 

 not the least valuable of its contents. 



The Editing Committee earnestly invite contributions from the members at 

 large. The departments of Natural History, Geology and Mineralogy, Natural 

 Philosophy, and Engineering, might be greatly enriched by short notices derived 

 from personal observation, throughout the various districts of this widely extended 

 Province ; and to all the sections of the Journal it must be in the power of many 

 members to furnish additions of general interest and value. For those which em- 

 brace subjects connected with the Ancient Races and the early historical monu- 

 ments of this Continent, communications are specially desired. Probably no 

 season passes over without the disclosure of some remains of the Aboriginal 

 possessors of the land, accompanied with evidences of ancient arts, customs, or 

 sepulchral rites ; and it is a matter of great moment, and calculated to confer a 

 permanent value on the Journal as a book of reference, that such should be 

 accurately noted and recorded as they occur. The same observations apply to 

 the Fauna and Flora of the Continent, which are unquestionably disappearing 

 from many localities, now encroached upon by the clearings of new settlers : and 



• The difference between this statement of the actual cost of the Journal, in the Report 

 of the Editing Committee, and that embodied in the Treasurer's Report, arises from the lat- 

 ter charging the Journal, as in former years, with one-half of the Assistant Secretary's salary 



