PROCEEDINGS FOR 1919 XXXIII 



The officers for the ensuing year are as follows: President, Dr. 

 J. H. Faull; Vice-President, Professor A. P. Knight; Secretary, Pro- 

 fessor J. J. MacKenzie. 



It is recommended to Council that two new Fellows be elected 

 to the Section next year. 



Thirty- two papers were read at the sectional meeting, as follows: 



1. — Presidential Address: Dairy Bacteriology and its Earlier 

 Investigators. By Dr. F. C. Harrison, B.S.A., D.Sc, F.R.S.C. 



2. — (I) The Reality of Nerve Energy. By D. Fraser Harris, 

 M.D., D.Sc, F.R.S.C. 



3. — (II) On Functional Inertia and Functional Momentum. 

 By D. Fraser Harris, M.D., D.Sc, F.R.S.C. 



4. — West Coast Exploration. By Arthur Willey, D.Sc, F.R.S., 

 F.R.S.C. 



5. — Comparative Studies of Purine Metabolism in Various 

 Representative Mammals. By Andrew Hunter, F.R.S.C, and F. W. 

 Ward, B.A. 



6.^A Report on the Infestation of Grain Supplies. By C. 

 Gordon Hewitt, D.Sc, F.R.S.C. 



7. — The Naso-brbito-prosthionic Index. A New Craniometric 

 Method and What it Discloses. By John Cameron, M.D., D.Sc, 

 F.R.S.E. 



8. — (1) A Study of Marine Bacteria in the Straits of Georgia, 

 B.C. By Cyril Berkeley, late Government Bacteriologist, India. 



9. — (2) Some Apparent Effects of the Severe Weather of the 

 Winter and Spring (1915-16) on the Marine Organisms in the Vicinity 

 of Departure Bay, B.C. By Dr. C. McLean Fraser, F.R.S.C. 



10. — (3) The Lump-fish, Its Natural History and Economic 

 Importance. By Professor Cox and Miss Marian Anderson. 



11. — (4) The Utilization of Dog-fish and Selachian Fishes of 

 Eastern Canada. By Professor J. W. Mavor. 



12. — (5) The Sea -Mussel and a Discussion of its Commercial 

 Value. By Miss Bessie K. C. Mossop. 



13. — (6) The Growth Rate in Pacific Salmon, Parts I and II. 

 By Dr. C. McLean Eraser, F.R.S.C. 



14. — (7) Copepods Parasitic on Fish from Vancouver Island 

 Region, B.C. By Dr. C. McLean Fraser, F.R.S.C. 



15. — (8) Some Fishes of Vancouver Island. By Dr. Barton A. 

 Bean and A. C. Weed. 



16. — (9) The Ovum of the Hag-fish (Myxine). By Professor 

 Ê. E. Prince, F.R.S.C. 



