PROCEEDINGS FOR 1895 LVII 
liberality of the provincial government, which, on being informed by the 
council of the desirability of illustrating in an adequate manner such 
papers as that of Mr. H. 8. Poole on ‘The Geology of the Pictou Coal- 
tields,” increased the institute's annual grant from $300 to $400. 
The librarian’s report showed that copies of the Transactions are 
sent regularly to 709 scientific societies, government scientific bureaus 
and university and other libraries. and that exchanges, consisting of 
transactions and proceedings of societies, journals and other scientific pub- 
lications, are received from 383 scientific institutions, embracing leading 
societies in all parts of the world. The large difference between these 
numbers is accounted for by the liberality of the institute in the distribu- 
tion of its publications to institutions, such as libraries from which no 
return is received, 63 copies. for example, being distributed annually to 
Canadian societies and libraries alone. The rapid growth of the library 
has necessitated the removal of a considerable portion of it to temporary 
quarters. kindly furnished by Dalhousie college. 
The institute is glad to be able to report that at the last meeting of 
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the legislature of Nova Scotia the sum of $50,000 was voted for “a public 
building for museum, library, ete.” It is expected that accommodation 
will be provided in this building for the libraries of the institute, the 
Nova Scotia Mining Society and other societies, as well as for the provin- 
cial museum and the legislative library ; and in that case valuable collec- 
tions of scientific specimens and of books will be rendered readily acces- 
sible to the public. 
The following were the officers elected at the annual meeting : 
President—George Lawson, Ph.B., LL.D. 
Vice-Presidents—Alexander McKay. Edwin Gilpin, A.M., UL.D., 
E.G.S. 
Treasurer—William C, Silver. 
Corresponding Secretary—J. G. MacGregor, D.Sc. 
Recording Secretary—Harry Piers. 
Librarian—Maynard Bowman. 
Other members of Council—Martin Murphy, D.Sc., C.E.; A. H. 
Mackay, LL.D.; John Somers, M..D.; F: W. W. Doane, C.E.; Alex. P. 
Reid, M.D.C.M.; William McKerron, W. L. Bishop. 
The following papers have either been communicated to the institute 
or are expected to be communicated before the end of the session : 
1.—“ On the Geology and Botany of Digby Neck,” ‘by Prof. L. W. 
Bailey, Ph.D., F.R.S.C., Fredericton, N.B. 
2.—* Notes on Globigerina Ooze and Stones obtained by Captain 
Trott, steamship “ Minia,” from the bottom of the North 
Atlantic at a depth of nearly three miles,’ by A. H. 
Mackay, LL.D., F.R.S.C., superintendent of education. 

