APPENDIX E LXXXVII 
VI.—Report of the Nova Scotian Institute of Science, Halifax, to the 
Royal Society of Canada. 
Presented by A. H. Mackay, Esq., LL.D., F.R.S.C., Delegate. 
The Nova Scotian Institute of Science begs to present the following 
report on its proceedings during its forty-eighth annual session (1909-10). 
The following officers were elected for the year 1909-10:— 
President.—Prof. Ebenezer MacKay, Ph.D., ex-officio, F.R.M.S. 
First Vice-President.—Watson L. Bishop. 
Second Vice-President. — Prof. A. Stanley MacKenzie, Ph.D. 
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Treasurer.—Maynard Bowman, B.A. 
Corresponding Secretary.—A. H. MacKay, LL.D., F.R.S.C. 
Recording Secretary.—Harry Piers. 
Librarian.—Harry Piers. 
Other members of Council.—Alexander MacKay; Professor Frederic 
H. Sexton, B.Sc.; Philip A. Freeman; F. W. W. Doane, C.E.; A. L. 
McCallum, B.Se.; Donald M. Fergusson, and Parker R. Colpitt. 
Auditors.—William McKerron and H. W. Johnston, C.E. 
The library of the Society has continued its rapid growth. During 
the year 1909, 1,754 books and pamphlets were received, catalogued 
and arranged. The total number of books and pamphlets received for 
the year by the Provincial Science Library, with which that of the 
Society is incorporated, was 2,204. The total number of books and 
pamphlets in the Provincial Science Library on the 31st December, 
1909, was 38,988. Of these, 8,401 belong to the Science Library proper 
and 30,587 (or 78 per cent.), to the Institute. The library, which is 
numerically the largest one in Nova Scotia, is free to all residents of 
the province. . 
The old library room over the Provincial Museum had become 
greatly congested, and in May and June the books were moved to the 
new stack-room provided for them in the Nova Scotia Technical Col- 
lege, where 3024 feet of shelving is available for them, which is probably 
sufficient accommodation for seventeen or eighteen years at the present 
rate of increase. Advantage was taken of the removal to rearrange 
the publications of societies, etc., a thing that had been impossible 
of late years owing to the overcrowded state of the shelves. While the 
library will still continue to be primarily a free public library for the 
use of any person in the Province, its location in the Technical College 
will place it where it will be of special service to that institution and 
its students, and will assist in increasing the use of the books. 
