XCVIII EOYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



Among the progressive measures that the Society has in view for 

 the ensuing year are the following: (1) A scheme of affiliation by which 

 natural history societies now in existence, and which may in future 

 be formed in the province, may affiliate with the Natural History Society 

 of New Brunswick as the parent society; (2) to join heartily in the 

 movement to celebrate the ter-centenary of Champlain's discovery of 

 St. John, and invite the Eoyal Society of Canada to meet here on that 

 occasion; (3) to conduct a summer camp, or hold field meetings in 

 places where profitable and interesting work may be carried on; (4) to 

 urge upon the New Brunswick Government the desirability of marking 

 the bounds and laying out the park and game preserve in the Tobique- 

 Nepisiguit region. 



The Annual Bulletin which the Society has just issued, and which 

 I have the honour to present to the Eoyal Society, contains a very full 

 record of the results of the original work carried on by the Society 

 during the year. 



X. — From the Nova Scotian Institute of Science, 

 through De. K. W. Ells. 



The Nova Scotian Institute of Science, through its delegate, begs 

 to submit to the Eoyal Society of Canada, a report on its proceedings 

 during the past session of 1902-3. 



The following were elected officers for the year 1903-3 : — 



Presideni^Henry S. Poole, Esq., A.E.S.M., F.G.S., F.E.S.C. ex- 

 officio F.E.M.S. 



1st Vice-President— F. W. W. Doane, Esq., CE. 



2nd Vice-President— Prof. E. McKay, Ph.D. 



Treasurer — W. C. Silver, Esq. 



Corresponding Secretary — A. H. MacKay, Esq., LL.D., F.E.S.C. 



Eecording Secretary — Harry Piers, Esq. 



Librarian — Harry Piers, Esq. 



Other Members of Council — M. Bowman, Esq., B.A. ; W. L. Bishop, 

 Esq.; Martin Murphy, Esq., D.Sc; W. McKerron, Esq.; Prof. S. M. 

 Di^on, B.A., B.A.I. ; Edwin Gilpin, Esq., LL.D., F.E.S.C; Alex. McKay, 

 Esq. 



Auditors — Eoderick McColl, Esq., CF., and J. B. McCarthy, 

 Esq., B.Sc. 



Parts 3 and 4 of volume X. of the proceedings and transactions 

 have been published and distributed during the year. 



The King's County branch of the Institute, Wolf ville, N.S., 

 organized May 29, 1901, under the presidency of Prof. E. Haycock, 



