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SIR,— In pursuance with the instructions of the acting President and Council of the Canadian Institute, I liavo tiie lionor to transmit to you tlic accompanying papers: — Pij-st A brief outline of the objcc's of tlie Canadian Institute, for the information of those who may not as yet be acquainted wilii its establisimicut. The Council will be much gratified and encouraged by evidences of extended support fioni the various sections of the Province ; and it has Instructed me to transmit copies of the Regulations, and other information to all who may express such a desire. Second— \ series of enquiries relative to the Indian remains, in the form of Mounds or In- dian Intronchments, which arc known to exist in some localities, and arc supposed to be of not very uncommon occurrence in various parts of Upper Canada. I am directed to state, that you will confer a favor, which will be gratefully acknowledged, by communicating information with respect to any of these int.iresting objects which may occur in your neighborhood, or of which you may have heard, and to call your attention to the impor- tance of losing no opportunity of collecting particulars, and making tfio surveys or measurements indicated, while such remains are in tolerable preservation. Third— Enqu'mca regarding the various kinds of Limestones throughout the Province. Fourth— The Prospectus of " The Canadian Journal," for tho early publication of which active steps arc now being taken. It will be the medium of publication of the transactions of tho Institute, and published and edited under the controul of the Council. I have the lionor to bo Your obedient Servant, SANDFORD FLEMING, Secret ARv. Z X Ui h k u INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER. W. E. LOGAN, F.R.S.. F.G.S., (Director of tho Geological Survey of Canada,) iTirflt l)Uf Jpresibciit : CAPTAIN LEFROY, R.A., F.R.S., (Director of tho Magnetic Observatory, Toronto.) Scionir l)ice |?n0iirent : J. O. BROWNE, F.S.A. (STorresponbing Secretarg : FREDERICK CUMBERLAND Sttrctaru • SANDFORD FLEMING ^aaifltant Sftretarg: WALTER MOBERLY. ©rmaurcr : DALRYMPLE CRAWFORD. (jtnrotor : F. F. PASSMORE. O Council : ALFRED BRUNEL, I PROFESSOR CROFT. PROFESSOR CIIERRIMAN, | EDWARD L. CULL, DR. MELVILLE, WILLIAM THOMAS, z 6 < 5 N^ 'rt Q -s ¥ ANA 21 ?5 '' "^ Mr 1 1 y jRVi ^ :§ Si Together with the Presidents and other Olllccrs of tiie Institute. Temporary Office of the Council— 67 Yonge Street, Toronto. hu. rh the Canahmn In8titi;te has bu-n for some lime in oi.cralion, and numbers am(.n«st embers pursond scattered over many parts of ii,e Province, ils obji-cls have hitherto birn Jled within such narrow bounds, lin.t ihe accompanying i.apurs may fall into the hands .culm u.o i^r.auantol its lurmatiun : the Council, therefore, deem it a.ivisable to accomi.auy with a bnel outline of the puri.oses for wimdi this Society has been luun.led, and for wh'ch it 3en pcrmanenll> establ.shed by Royal Charter, under the title of the "Cunadian Institute." t lust sectiuuof the Regulations drawn up in conformity with, and to carry out the intention ' Llmrter of ncorporai.on, sets forth that the "Institute has been established lor the i.urpo.se •muting the 1 hysical Sciences, for encouraging and advancing the Industrial Arts and Mnnu- O' factures, for effecting the formation of a Provincial Museum, and for the purpose of facilitating the acquirement and the dissemination of knowledge connected with the Surveying, Engineerine and Architectural Professions ;" but the nature of the Institution is more fully expounded in the address ot the acting President at the late annual convorsatione, and its character cannot be bet- ter explained than by alluding to a few passages therein : — ^^ " It aspires," said the Vice President, "as the Report just read informs us, to supply to Upper Cana- ^^ da, the place of those societies, which every other civilized country possesses under the denomi- ^ nations ot literary, or philosophical, or professional societies or academies, or whatever title they mr V prefer, to express ends which are essentially the same in all ; but it aims to do this modestly and gradually, availing itself first, and principally, of those elements which offer themselves spon- ^taneously in the progress of the country. * * * That there should be in Upper Canada, a centre ^^ to which the treasures of experience, observation and discovery, of this generation should naturally now : at which, as in a focus, the attainments of her most gifted sons, may, by degrees, be brourr|,t bear on objects of universal interest, and by whose example and influence those pursuits nTay be encouraged, which extend the bounds of human knowledge, while they promote, in a hish de- ^^ gree, the iiappiness of al who follow them. * * * Turn which way we will, enquiries meet us, ^^ on whicn an active mind may employ its best energies, and yet glean but the surface treasures of tiiat exiiaustlcss mine which Art and Nature offer to human industry." Again, with reference to the particular enquiries which accompany this communication, it was added, "Every year the ploujrh ^^ IS obliterating the last traces of our predecessors upon this soil. Every year the axe lays lovv some mvaluabe witness to the ages which have elapsed since populous villages of another race were scattered lar and wide through our now lifeless forests. We arc fast forgetting that the bycone ^^ ages even of the new world were filled by living men, and fast losing by neglect, all those delicate links in the chain of research, by which the Archa3ologist of another generation, may hope to trace out the origin and the fortunes of a great branch of the human family. If it has been tound, even in Great Britain, that scarcely five per cent, of the rare and interesting re- ^^ mains jrorn time to time brought to light, are recoverable after a few years, unless they ^^ are lodged in some public museum, we may be very sure that a proportion even larger, ^^ ot such remains as Canada furnishes, are lost for want of such an institution. * * * Wfien II the last Pine-wood of Chiiiguacousy (Chinqua-konsc &hh\— a little Pine) is levelled; when ^^ art has provided another outlet than the (Saugeen) rivar mouth in Nottawasaga; when ..?i g<'np/ations more shall have hopelessly corrupted the spelling and pronunciation of ^^ those, and of many other aboriginal names still to be found on the map, of all monuments of a race and language, perhaps, the most enduring : how will philologists puzzle themselves over difficul- ties which hundreds now living could remove, but wliich to them mav be as inscrutable as the anguage of Nineveh. I allude to these subjects here, because they offer an immediate field for ^^ the exertions ot the Institute, and is one which h is peculiarly able to enter upon, as including among its members so many gentlemen whose pursuits must be constantly bringing them into contact with objects of the kind referred to." Independent of the advantages whicS gentlemen ot the Lngincering profession may derive from such an Institution when Canada is einbarkinL' so extensively in the construction of works which demand for their accomplishment the exercise of high scientific acquirements, there are many persons throughout the Province, both amateurs nnd practical men, whose leisure hours are spent in the pursuit of objects kindred to those of the Canadian Institute, and whether the results of their labours be mechanical inventions or discoveries in natural history, they are in a great measure lost for want of such a society. " It is in the rc- Iresnng influence of mind upon mind— in the reunion of those whom separnte pursuits or different w.alks in life tend otherwise to put asunder— in holding up to practice the mirror of theory— in animating theory with the life of practice- that societies like tliis.when actively conducted, exor- cise so beneficial an cfleet. Who can tell how much encouragement mav be given by a word of sympatliy : how often a fiienlr.,,« »l,,.,r o„,.;_„ »,. . 1 I 1 _f _ •, 1° . , ", attainments, and learn that the i>lace they aspire to must be earned 'befo7e7rc"an'bc'cnjoycd'iTh^^^^ in any of its branches." The Council is advised that many there is no royal road to knowledge ir , •' I 1 r> • "■ '• "J -- — - — ■ » ..u vv^uiiv^ii IS,