310 CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



Your Memorialists would not presume to dictate to Your Excellency the 

 manner in which the object of this petition should be carried out, but they may be 

 permitted to state their opinion that for a sum of Five Thousand Pounds and au 

 annual endowment of One Thousand Two Hundred Pounds, a first-class Observa- 

 tory could be efficiently and permanently constructed, equipped and maintained. 



Your Memorialists, while urging with earnestness on your consideration this 

 prayer, have all confidence in the wisdom and liberality of Your Excellency, and 

 feel assured that should aNatioual Canadian Astronomical Observatory be found- 

 ed, it will be on a scale commensurate with the importance of the object and the 

 character of the country. 



Aud Your Memorialists as iu duty bound will ever pray. 

 EDWARD J. CHAPMAN, DeROTTENBURG, JOHN LANGTON, 



1st Vice-President. 2nd Vice- President. Zrd Vice-President. 



J. GEORGE HODGINS, Secretary. 



TWELFTH ORDINARY MEETING. — 14th March, 1857. 



Professor E. J. Chapman, Vice-President, iu the Chair. 



The following Donation for the Library was presented, and the thanks of the 

 Institute voted to the Donor ; 



From T. Henning, Esq., : 



"Villa and Cottage Architecture," by Calvert Vaux. 



The following papers ivere then read : 



1. By James H. Morris, M.A., : 

 " Notes of Travel in China." 



2. By Col. Baron dk Rottenburs : 



" Report of the Committee on Prof. Kingston's paper on the use of the Electric 

 Telegraph in giving notice of storms. 



. The report of the Committee was adopted, and remitted to the Council to be 

 carried into effect. 



3. By Col. Baron de Rottsnburg: 



"Extract of a letter from Mr. Chalmers x»f Barrie, F. R. Astronomical Society 

 detailing some observations which he had made on the 26th February, on a sup- 

 posed volcano in the moon. 



thirteenth ordinary meeting. — 21st March, 1851. 

 Professor E. J. Chapman, Vice-President, in the Chair. 

 The following Gentleman was elected a Junior Member : 

 James Beatty, Esq. 



