APPENDIX C XVII 
The Society continues to publish the Canadian Record of Science, 
which maintains its high character. 
Our membership has increased considerably during the past year, 
but we have to note the removal from among us by death of Sir William 
Dawson and Mr. Walter Drake, both of whom took the greatest interest 
in the Society’s work and contributed largely to its success. 
The following are the officers for the present year :— 
Patron—His Excellency the Governor-General of Canada. 
President—T. Wesley Mills, M.A., M.D. 
Vice-Presidents—Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, C. T. Wil- 
hams, Rev. Robt. Campbell, M.A., D.D., J. H. Joseph, Frank D. Adams, 
Ph.D., F.R.S.C., Hon. Justice Wurtele, B. J. Harrington, Ph.D. 
Hos.C., A: H. Lyman: 
Hon. Recording Secretary—Chas. 8. J. Phillips. 
Hon. Corresponding Secretary—J. 8. Buchan, B.C.L. 
Hon. Treasurer—F. W. Richards. 
Curator—Alfred Griffin. 
Librarian—E. T. Chambers. 
Members of Council—Albert Holden, Chairman; J. A. U. Beaudry, 
C.E., Edgar Judge, E. T. Chambers, Prof. E. W. MacBride, M.A., B.Sc., 
Joseph Fortier, H. McLaren, Rev. G. Colborne Heine, Geo. Sumner. 
Superintendent—Alfred Griffin. 
IX.—From The Nova Scotia Institute of Science, through 
A. H. MacKay, LL.D. 
The Nova Scotia Institute of Science has to report the satisfactory 
completion of its thirty-eighth annual course during which sixteen 
papers to be published in its Transactions were presented. The financial 
condition, thanks to the intelligent interest of the Provincial Govern- 
ment, is good, although a large expenditure was made for binding in 
addition to that for publication. 
The Provincial Government has also taken steps to provide suit- 
able library accommodation for the books and exchanges of the Institute 
on condition that they shall be free of access to the public; so that next 
year the library which has for a few years been accommodated in one of 
the rooms of the University of Dalhousie, may be reported to have been 
transferred to a room in the new Provincial Government Building annex, 
with a more luxurious equipment. 
Part I of Volume X (being Volume III of the Second Series), con- 
taining the Proceedings and Transactions of the session of 1898-99, has 
been published and distributed to learned societies all over the world. 
R Proc., 1900. Fr. 
