DR. Estimated Balance in favor of the Building Fund... £1898 14 0 The Treasurer in account with the Canadian Institute. When the Council assumed office, they, with the Members of the Institute generally, indulged the hope that during the past summer some progress might have been made in the erection of the new building; when, however, they came to consider in detail the provision which must necessarily be made, the expenditure which it involved, and the entire insufficiency of the funds at command to secure such progress as would justify active measures during the season, they were reluctantly compelled to abandon any attempt to proceed with the structure during the present year. The calls upon the public from other quarters had been so pressing and continuous, that the Council feared the prosecution of their appeal for aid under the circumstances would have been productive of injury to the scheme. They preferred therefore rather to await a more promising opportunity for calling in subscriptions, than to urge their claims at a period which such efforts as they made abundantly manifested to be so unpromising; and they were further induced to this decision, by the reflection that whilst the funds already in their possession would continue to fructify, they might confidently rely upon additions to them by future Parliamentary Grants, as well as by the increased liberality of individual subscribers when less intruded upon by rival appeals. Having then secured such amount as will suffice for the objects in view, they anticipate the time as not far distant when the Institute may engage in the work free from the risk of debt, and without the apprehension of the depressing and perhaps disastrous influence which such could scarcely fail to have on the Institute. The Council trust that these views will meet with the entire concurrence of the Members of the Institute, and that the motives by which they were governed in adopting, after the most anxious and mature deliberation, the course of procedure here referred to, may stimulate the members and friends of the Institute to such active co-operation and liberality in their contributions as will justify the construction of the building during the ensuing summer, and enable the successors of the present Council, in presenting their next Report, to congratulate the Members on its speedy completion, if not to present it to them, assembled in their own Hall. F. W.CUMBERLAND, Secretary. Toronto, 6th December, 1856. AUDITOR'S REPORT, 1856. We, the undersigned, beg to report to the Council of the Canadian Institute, that we have examined the Cash Book and compared the Vouchers with the items of expenditure recorded, which agree. There appears to be a Balance in the Treasurer's hands of ninety-one pounds five shillings and sevenpence currency, and invested by the Treasurer, upon securities exhibited to us, one thousand three hundred and eighty-nine pounds six shillings and eightpence. Toronto, 9th December, 1856. J. STEVENSON, } Auditors. The Report was unanimously adopted. The Chairman having appointed Mr. Sheriff Jarvis and Mr. S. Fleming as scrutineers, the ballot for Election of Officers for the ensuing year was proceeded with, and The following Gentlemen were declared duly elected; President, the Hon. Chief Justice DRAPER, C. B. The following Donations to the Museum were announced, and the thanks of the Institute voted to the Donors: THIRD ORDINARY MEETING.-10th January, 1857. The Hon. Chief Justice DRAPER, C.B., President, in the Chair. The following Gentlemen were elected Members: ROBERT SNELLING, Esq., Toronto. Rev. SALTERN GIVENS, Yorkville. ALEX. MANNING, Esq., Toronto. JAMES GRAND, Esq., Toronto. WILLIAM PROUDFOOT, Esq., Hamilton. SAML. H. STRONG, Esq., Toronto. GEO. F. DUGGAN, Toronto, (Junior Member.) The following Donations to the Library and Museum were announced, and the thanks of From the Author: the Institute voted to the Donors: Sketch of the Montreal Celebration of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, by W. Baldwin Sullivan, Esq. From the Hon. J. M. Brodhead, per A. H. Armour, Esq.,: "United States Japan Exhibition, vol. III." "Patent Office Reports, 1855." From the Author, per A. H. Armour, Esq.,: An Overland Journey round the World in the years 1841, and 1842," by Sir George Simpson. From Phillips, Sampson & Co.: "Prescott's Robertson's History of Charles V.," three volumes. "Religious Truths, illustrated from Science," by E. Hitchcock, D.D., LL.D. From John Head, Esq.: "A large Stone Gouge." The President's ANNUAL ADDRESS was delivered by the Hon. Chief Justice Draper, C.B. The following Paper was then read: 1. By the Rev. Professor Hincks: "On Cell Developement." This communication, containing some strictures on a paper on the same subject read by Professor Bovell at the previous meeting, and Professor Bovell not being present, it was ordered to be transmitted to him for the purpose of affording him an opportunity of further discussing the subject. FOURTH ORDINARY MEETING.-17th January, 1857. T. C. WALLBRIDGE, Esq., Belleville. WILLIAM ANDERSON, Esq., Toronto. EDWARD HURD, Esq., Toronto. AUGUSTUS HEWARD, Esq., Montreal. EDWARD D. ASHE, Esq., R. N., F.R.A.S., Quebec. JOHN CRICKMORE, Esq., Toronto. WILLIAM HAMILTON, Esq., Toronto. The following Papers were then read: 1. By Col. Baron de Rottenburg: "Observations on the General Telescopic aspect of the Five Primary Planets, including the Planet Mercury." 2. By JOHN LANGTON, Esq., M, A.: "On a Small Wave hitherto undescribed." 3. By Prof. D. WILSON, LL.D.: "On the Mediæval Pageant of the Dance of Death." Professor Wilson called the attention of the Institute to the great loss sustained by the scientific world in the late painful death of the distinguished Geologist, Hugh Miller. He bore a gratifying testimony to the character and personal worth of the deceased Geologist, and to his earnest and self-sacrificing devotion to the science with which his name will ever be honorably associated, and in the too ardent pursuit of which his life has been made a sacrifice. MONTHLY METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER, AT THE PROVINCIAL MAGNETICAL OBSERVATORY, TORONTO, CANADA WEST-DECEMBER, 1856, 123456789 .822 .803 .800 .825 .765 -- 15 29.375 29.648 .745 16 .741 .682 2222 21 .758 -771 065-085 22 519 .391 .562 -701 .773 .810 24 -715 .529 .444 25 .433 .477 26 .593 .635 .755 27 .849 .825 .745 28 .522 .427 29 .524 .614 .690 723 .707 .839 .891 .742 .915 1 29.842 29.748 29.714 29-765227.8 33.7 26.6 28.57- 2.22.134.154.113.130 .88 .79 79 .81 NE EbN N N 23 E 7.6 6.0 6.0 |