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secretary. As an original fellow and as an ex-president he was so well 

 known to the Royal Society that no reference to his work need be made 

 in this report. It may be well to state, however, that during his 

 membership of the institute he had communicated to it in all fifteen 

 papers, including five, which at the time of his death, had not been 

 final)}' prepared for publication, and which, owing to the fact that the 

 manuscript copies of them have not been found, we fear may never be 

 published. In the early years of his connection with the institute he 

 published but few papers in its Transactions, owing to the fact that at 

 that time the institute had made little eifort to distribute its publications 

 among scientific societies. In later years, however, he had felt able to 

 use the institute's Transactions as a medium of publication and shortly 

 before his death he had begun a valuable series of papers on the Flora of 

 Nova Scotia, which however he has not lived to complete. 



The treasurer's report presented at the annual meeting showed the 

 finances of the institute, largely through the continued liberality of the 

 provincial legislature, to be in a healthy state. 



The librarian's repoi-t showed that the Transactions were being 

 distributed to 735 scientific societies, government scientific departments, 

 museums, libraries, &c., and that exchanges were being received from 

 415 institutions of various kinds. The Transactions are sent regularly to 

 all libraries which intimate their desire to receive them, whether they 

 have any publications to send in return or not. 



AVe regret to report that the institute is still without a local 

 habitation, difficulties having arisen in connection with the provision of a 

 building to accommodate the Provincial Museum, the Legislative Library 

 a nd the Libraries of the Institute and of the Nova Scotia Historical 

 Society, for which the sum of $50,000 was voted by the legislature of 

 Nova Scotia two years ago. We still hope that this project maj'' be 

 accomplished. Meantime, through the courtesy of the Dominion (govern- 

 ment and of Dalhousie CoHege, the institute's rapidly growing library is 

 accommodated partly in the post office building and partly in the 

 college, and through the courtesy of the Honourable E. Boak, ])resident 

 of the legislative council, the meetings of the institute are held in the 

 legislative council chamber. 



The following are the members of the council of the institute for the 

 year 189fJ. elected at the council meeting : — 



President— Edward (iili)in. .Jr., Esq., LL.D., F.RS.C, F.R.M.S. 



1st Vice-President — Alexander McKay, Esq. 



2nd Vice-President— A. II. Mackay, E^sq., LL.D., F.R.S.C. 



Treasurer — W. C. Silver, Esq. 



Corresponding Secretary — Prof. J. G. MacGregor, D.Sc. 



Recording Secretary — Harry Piers, E^sq. 



Librarian — Maynard Iiowiiiaii. I'lsq. 



