The TREASURER in account with the CANADIAN INSTITUTE, from the 1st December, Cash paid on acc't of Journal for Printing and Postage, 1867. $199 30 We hereby certify that we have compared the Vouchers with the Cash Book, and have found the same to agree. We also find that the Balance in the Treasurer's hands is twenty-six dollars and eight cents. W. J. MACDONELL, Auditors. LIBRARIAN'S REPORT. No changes have taken place in the disposition of the library of the Institute since the last report. Our collection of works having reference to the early history of this continent in general, and Canada in particular, has been enriched by the addition to it of the well-known, but rather scarce, Travels of Rochefoucault Liancourt, especially interesting as containing an account of the state of things in the Province of Upper Canada at the close of the last century. The full description of this work is as follows:-"Travels through the United States of North America, the country of the Iroquois and Upper Canada, in the years 1795, 1796, and 1797, by the Duke de la Rochefoucault Liancourt, with an authentic account of Lower Canada. Three maps, several tables, &c. Second edition. Four vols. Royal 8vo. London: 1800." In addition to this desirable acquisition we have the gratification of naming another of a somewhat similar character, although not so locally interesting:— "Travels in America, performed in 1806, for the purpose of exploring the Rivers Alleghany, Monongahela, Ohio and Mississippi, and ascertaining the produce and condition of their banks and vicinity, By Thomas Ashe, Esq. Three volumes in one. 12mo. London, 1803." These are the valuable donations of Lawrence Heyden, Esq., Corresponding Secretary of the Institute. Mr. Heyden also contributes a curious tract of thirty-seven pages, in quarto, containing a translation in Latin of the Journal of Martin Frobisher, during his explorations in the Arctic Regions in 1577. The full title is as follows: "I.N.J.-Historia Navigationis Martini Forbisseri [sic passim], Angli Prætoris sive Capitani, A.C. 1577, Maio, Junio, Julio, Augusto et Septembri Mensibus, jussu Regina Elisabethæ, ex Angliâ in Septemtrionis et Occidentis tractum susceptæ, Ephemeridis sive diarii more conscripta et stilo, triennioque post, ex Gallico in Latinum sermonem, à Joh. Thomâ Freigio translata, et Noribergæ, ante A. 94. cum præfatione utili, observationibusque aliquot et appendice edita, denuo prodit è Museo D. Capelli, P.P. Hamburgi, sumptibus Joh. Numanni et Georgi Wolfii. Anno 1675." The frontispiece is a curious copperplate engrav. ing, showing, at the top, a man in a canoe aiming a spear of three prongs at a bird in the air; at the bottom, on the left, a small map of "Forbisser's Straet," &c.; and on the right a representation of two veritable unicorns. We learn from the notes that these are inserted because their existence is analogically proved by the fact that Frobisher actually met with sea-unicorns, locally called Narwhals-the horn of which was found, by experiment, to be fatal to spiders— just as the horn of the real land-unicorn is reported to be to life generally, by reason of a certain exudation, Mr. Heyden also presents to the Library the two following valuable and interesting works: "Consuetudines Kanciæ: A customs in the County of Kent. London: John Russell Smith. History of Gavelkind and other remarkable By Charles Sandys, F.S.A. (Cantianus). 8vo. 1851." "Rome: Its Ruler and Its Institutions. By John Francis Maguire, M.P. 8vo. New York: D. & J. Sadlier. 1858." The usual reports and scientific publications of Europe and this Continent, in continuation of the several series already on our shelves, have been received: e. g. the Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, the Linnean Society, &c. Especially to be mentioned, also, among these are— "The Patent Office Reports, Parts I. and II. of the United States: 1864-'65. Full bound in sheep; the 2nd part consisting wholly of plates. Royal 8vo." "The Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Vols. VI. and VII. Royal 8vo. Unbound; and the Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge. Vol. XIV. 4to. "The Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India. Six parts. Published at Calcutta, with numerous beautiful copperplate engravings." So soon as the funds of the Institute shall be in a sufficiently flourishing condition there are many volumes of serial works and other publications in parts that require to be bound. Respectfully submitted. December 21st, 1867. H. SCADDING, Librarian. APPENDIX. DONATIONS OF BOOKS, &c., SINCE LAST ANNUAL REPORT. From the Royal Scottish Society of Arts, Edinburgh. Transactions of, Vol. 7, Part I........ From L. Heyden, Esq., Toronto. VOLS. *1 May's Constitutional History of England, Vol. 1 ...... Rome; Its Ruler and Its Institutions-By John Francis Maguire, M.P. New York, 1858.... 1 1 *1 1 1806; London, 1808, 1 4 Martini Forbisseri Navigatio. Hamburgi, 1675. From the Literary and Philosophical Society, Manchester. From the Geological Society of Dublin. Journal of, Vol. I., Part 2, 1865-66, 2nd Session Through the Smithsonian Institution, Washington. Meteorologische Iaarbock Eerste Gedeelte Waarnemingen in Nederland. Mittheilungen der Kaiserlich-Koniglicher Geographischen Gesellschaft, &c. Through ditto, from University of Christiania. Magnetismus der Erde Von Christopher Hansteen, &c. Christiania, 1819.. 1 *1 *1 *1 1 1 1 1 Magnetischer Atlas, Gehörig Zum Magnetismus der Erde Von Christopher 1 Sheet. Forelaesninger ved det Kgl. norske Frederisks Universitet i 1ste semster, 1864.... 1 Om de elliptiske Funktioners Raekkend vikling af Dr. O. J. Brock, 1864.... #1 Forhandlinger i Videnskab-Selskabet I. Christiania, Aar 1864 .. VOLS. *1 *1 *1 Det Kongelige norske Fredericks Universitets aars-beretning for Aaret 1864, *1 Ezechiels Syner og Chaldeernes astrolab af C. A. Holmboe. Universitets program for Andet Halvaar, 1866 Bidrag tif, &c., &c. Christiania, 1865 ... #1 *1 Maerker efter en Jisted I omegnen af Hardangerfjorden af S. A. Sexe, 1866, *1 Det Kongelige norske Fredericks Universitets Aarsberetning for Aaret ....1866...... *1 1865, og Universitets budget 1860–1869..... Foreningen til norske Fortidsmindes merkers Bevaring Aarsberetning for 1865..... Norwegian Buildings from former times. Christiania, 1865.... Nyt Magazin for Naturvedenskaburne Udgives afden Plysiographiske Fore- Norske Fornlevninger, &c., af N. Nicolaysen. Mitthulungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Geographischen Gesellschaft IX. Jahrgang. Von Franz Foetterle. Wien, 1865.... Abhandlungen herausgegeben vom naturwissenschaftlichen Vereine Zu Bremen, 1 Bd. 1 Heft., 1866 ..... Vol. VII. Contributions to Knowledge, Vol. XIV.. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich Koniglichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gessellschaft in Wien Jahrgang, 1865, XV. Band Wien, 1865 From Royal Irish Academy. Transactions of, Vol. XXIV. Antiquities, Part 5.... *1 *1 *1 *1 *1 *1 *1 1 *1 *1 *1 #1 *1 *2 *1 From the Linnæan Society. Proceedings of, Vol. IX., Part IV.... List of the Society for 1865, 1; for 1866, 1..... Journal of the Society-Zoology, Vol. IX., Nos. 33, 34 & 35... Journal of the Proceedings of the Society-Zoology, Vol. VIII, Nos. 31 & 32, *1 From Dr. Oldham, Superintendent of the Geological Survey of India. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India-Wynne, A. B., on the Geology of the Island of Bombay *1 |