- The affiliation of the Algonquin languages, by John Campbell
- The mammalia of Canada, by J.B. Tyrrell
- Etruria capta, by the Rev. John Campbell, M.A., Professor in the Presbyterian College, Montreal
- The Blackfoot language, by John Maclean
- The archaeology of Scugog Island, a paper read before the Canadian Institute, January 12th, 1889, by A. F. Chamberlain
- Canadian Institute's Caxton celebration, Toronto, Wednesday, June 13th, 1877, at 8 p.m, exhibition of early specimens of typography, etc
- An appeal to the Canadian Institute on the rectification of Parliament, by Sandford Fleming
- Decipherment of the hieroglyphic inscriptions of Central America, by John Campbell
- Three Carrier myths, with notes and comments by Father Morice
- The campaign of 1815, by R.E. Kingsford
- The Etruscan question, by G.D. Ferguson
- Notes archaeological, industrial and sociological, on the western DénéEs, with an ethnographical sketch of the same, by A.G. Morice
- The great centre, an astronomical study, by J.C. Hamilton
- On the cytology of non-nucleated organisms, by A.B. Macallum
- Papers on time-reckoning and the selection of a prime meridian to be common to all nations, transmitted to the British government by His Excellency the Governor-General of Canada, by Sandford Fleming
- The anatomy of the orang outang, by A. Primrose
- Social organization of the Blackfoot Indians/, by John Maclean
- The use and abuse of philology, by A.G. Morice
- National characteristics and migrations of the Hurons as indicated by their remains in north Simcoe, by A.F. Hunter
- Three Carrier myths, with notes and comments by Father Morice
- The Blackfoot sun-dance, by John MacLean
- The Western Dénés, their manners and customs, by A.G. Morice
- The gametophyte of Botrychium virginianum, by Edward C. Jeffrey