CANADIAN JOURNAL OF INDUSTRY, SCIENCE, AND ART: CONDUCTED BY THE EDITING COMMITTEE OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. NEW SERIES. VOL. VII, TORONTO: PRINTED FOR THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE, BY LOVELL AND GIBSON, YONGE STREET. MDCCCLXII. I. Geology and Mineralogy: E. J. CHAPMAN, Prof. of Geology and Mineralogy, Univ. Coll. Toronto. II. Physiology and Natural History: REV. WM. HINOKS, F.L.S., Prof. of Natural History, Univ. Coll., Toronto. III. Ethnology and Archeology: DANIEL WILSON, LL. D., Prof. of History and English Literature, Univ. Coll., Toronto. IV. Meteorology: G. T. KINGSTON, M.A., Director of the Magnetic Observatory, Toronto. V. Chemistry: HENRY CROFT, D. C. L., Prof. of Chemistry and Experimental Philosophy, Univ. Coll., Toronto. VI. Mathematics and Natural Philosophy: J. B. CHERRIMAN, M. A., Prof. of Natural Philosophy, Univ. Coll., Toronto. VII. Engineering and Architecture: SANDFORD FLEMING, C. E. THE CANADIAN JOURNAL NEW SERIES. No. XXXVII.-JANUARY, 1862. THE PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. BY THE HON. J. H. HAGARTY, D.C.L., JUDGE OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Read before the Canadian Institute, January 18, 1862. A master of English prose has told us how he found in an old writer, a quaint apologue, in which human life is symbolized by a vast board pierced with innumerable openings of every size and figure, -circular, square, obtuse and acute angled. Every denizen of the earth has there his fitting opening-if he can only find it. But some maladroit influence has arranged the occupants, and, as the author says, feelingly, "How often do we see the round man in the three-cornered hole? The occupation of the chair this evening may possibly revive this pleasant fable in many memories, as it certainly has in mine. I can but console myself by the thought that, like thousands of others similarly situated, I am but in a secondary degree responsible for the misplacement. The custom of the Society calls upon me for a few introductory remarks on assuming the position with which I have been honoured. The short space in which I intend to trespass on your patience, must be occupied in viewing the topics suggested by the occasion, from a VOL. VII. A |