APPENDIX G LXXXIX 
I—From The Nova Scotian Institute of Science, through 
R. W. Enis, LL.D. 
The Nova Scotian Institute of Science, through its delegate, begs 
to submit to the Royal Society of Canada, a report on its proceedings 
during the past session of 1906-7, which was its forty-fifth annual 
session. 
The following officers were elected for the year 1906-7 :— 
President—F. W. W. Doane, C.E. 
Ist Vice-President—Prof. Eben. MacKay, Ph.D. 
2nd Vice-President—Prof. J. Edmund Woodman, D.Se. 
Treasurer—J. B. McCarthy, B.A., M.Sc. 
Corresponding Secretary—A. H. MacKay, LL.D., F.R.S.C. 
Recording Secretary—Harry Piers. 
Librarian—Harry Piers. 
Other Members of Council—Maynard Bowman, B.A.; Watson L. 
Bishop; Edwin Gilpin, LL.D., F.R.S.C., I.S.O.; Alexander McKay, 
Prof. Frederic H. Sexton, B.Sc.; Henry S. Poole, D.Sc., F.R.S.C.; 
and William McKerron. 
Auditors—Prof. D. A. Murray, Ph.D.; R. McColl, C.E. 
Part 2 of Volume XI of the Proceedings and Transactions has been 
published and distributed, and part 3 is now nearly completed. 
The library of the society, which is incorporated with the Provincial 
Science Library, received 1,756 volumes and pamphlets during the year 
1906. The total number of books and pamphlets received by the 
science library during the same period was 2,835. The number of read- 
ers is jincreasing each year. A card catalogue of the manuals and 
general works in the library, arranged alphabetically by authors and sub- 
jects, was completed in 1906; and these books have been arranged on 
the shelves according, to the decimal system of classification. 
The King’s County Branch of the Institute, Wolfville, N.S., which 
was organized in 1901, did not meet during the session. 
The institute desires to direct the attention of the Royal Society 
of Canada as well as of other learned societies of the Dominion, to the 
desirability of having established in Canada some exchange system for 
publications which will take the place of that of fhe Smithsonian Bureau 
of International Exchanges at Washington, which latter bureau cannot 
now continue the work of forwarding book packages to foreign countries 
owing to the magnitude to which such work has grown of late years. 
Meetings were held from November, 1906, until May, 1907. The 
following papers were communicated during the session :— 
1.—* Presidential Address,” by F. W. W. Doane, C.E. 
2.—“ Notes on Mineral Fuels of Canada,” by R. W. Ells, LL.D., F.R.S.C. 
